Commentary: The current ‘golden age’ of Mormon studies may be losing its luster

Commentary: The current ‘golden age’ of Mormon studies may be losing its luster

Historian Benjamin Park notes increasing tensions in the field of Mormon studies between scholars and the institutional church.

Mormons and the Pew Religious Landscape Study

I recently had my students read through the 2023–2024 Pew Religious Landscape Study. My students’ prompt was pretty easy– they just had to find a couple interesting statistics and do a write-up. As I prepared for class, and did my own skimming, I unsurprisingly gravitated towards information on us Mormons. Eventually, I got sucked in and did a “control/f” search of the 393 page document looking over every mention of us.  This is not by any means…