Jan Shipps

Biographic Data

ID362905
NAMEJan Shipps
GIVEN NAMESJan
FAMILY NAMEShipps
SIGNATURESHIPPS J
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith

    Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal of Mormon History2025

    Joseph Smith was just one of a proliferation of preachers and prophets who found God along the stony ridges and narrow lakes of western New York in the first half of the nineteenth century. It was a place and a time of intense interest in religion: pathways to paradise ran in all directions. Prospective pilgrims had a choice, and many a wanderer journeyed a little way down first one path and then another testing alternate routes to heaven. The st…

  • Fatal Convergence in the Kingdom of God: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American History

    Sarah Barringer Gordon, Sarah Gordon et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2017References: 1

    This article examines religion, violence, and westward migration in early national and antebellum America. In treating the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, the authors demonstrate how recognition of religion enriches understanding of the event and its roots in culture and geography. Close attention to and careful interpretation of the lives of the leaders of Methodist migrants (who were killed at Mountain Meadows) and the local Mormon militia (…

  • In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death

    Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    In reciting the Lord's Prayer, Catholics, Orthodox Church members, and Protestants all ask that God's will be done “on earth as it is in heaven.” In this sustained and learned argument that Mormonism is an “all-encompassing plan of death conquest,” Samuel Morris Brown indicates why the Lord's Prayer is not part of Mormon communal or personal ritual (p. 287). Mormons do not want earth as it is in heaven but heaven as it is on earth. A physician wo…

  • Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History

    Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal of American History2007Cited by: 2

    Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Lyman Bushman's biography of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, is the crowning achievement of the new Mormon history, an in tellectual and historiographical movement that carried the story of the Latter-day Saints into the cultural mainstream just as Mormonism itself was moving in from the margins to find a place on the American religious landscape as a respectable belief system and an upstanding faith co…

  • From Peoplehood to Church Membership: Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II

    Open AccessJan ShippsARTICLEChurch History2007References: 7

    Christians of every stripe are bound into faith communities by two sets of identifying metaphors. One,the body of Christ, is derived from the New Testament's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The other, drawn from Hebraic prophecy, is linked to the understanding that Jesus was of the house and lineage of David. As the crucified Messiah, he stood at the head of thehouse of Israelas both Lord and Christ. In the practical terms …

  • Black and Mormon

    Jan Shipps, Newell G Bringhurst et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2006

    Journal Article Black and Mormon Get access Black and Mormon. Edited by Bringhurst Newell G. Smith Darron T.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 173 pp. Charts, tables, index. $34.95.) Jan Shipps Jan Shipps Indiana University—Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2006, Pages 520–521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2544343…

  • Religion & Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition

    Richard Francaviglia, Jan Shipps et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2005

    Journal Article Religion & Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition Get access Religion & Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition. Religion by Region Series. Edited by Shipps Jan Silk Mark. (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004. 166 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Richard Francaviglia Richard Francaviglia University of Texas at Arlington Sear…

  • Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons

    Timothy Miller, Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons. By Jan Shipps. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiv, 400 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02590-3.) Get access Timothy Miller Timothy Miller University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700939 Published…

  • Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons

    Brigham D Madsen, Jan ShippsARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2002

    Journal Article Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons Get access Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons. By Shipps Jan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiii + 400 pp. Appendixes, notes, index. $34.95.) Brigham D. Madsen Brigham D. Madsen University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 200…

  • The Mysteries of Mormonism

    Richard L Bushman, John L Brooke et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1995

  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power

    John L Brooke, D Michael Quinn et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power. By D. Michael Quinn and The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship. By David John Buerger. San Francisco; Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess. By Richard S. Van Wagoner; The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836. Ed. by Jan Shipps and John W. Welch. Provo: byu Studies Get access John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Search f…

  • Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife

    Jan Shipps, Maria S EllsworthARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife. Ed. by Maria S. Ellsworth. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv + 296 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-01875-3.) Get access Jan Shipps Jan Shipps Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 705–706, https://doi.org…

  • A Profile of the Membership of the American Society of Church History

    Open AccessJan ShippsARTICLEChurch History1990Cited by: 1

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  • Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition

    M Gerald Bradford, Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1987

    Shipps has found a way to understand the Mormons that will truly please both believers and non-believers. (New York Times Book Review). This may be the most brilliant book ever written on Mormonism. It is insightful, inspiring, and original and sure to become a landmark work on the subject. (Richard L. Bushman, author of Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism)

  • Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition

    Henry Warner Bowden, Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1986Cited by: 5

  • Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and a Religious Tradition

    Martin Ridge, Richard L Bushman et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1986

  • Brigham Young: American Moses

    Jan Shipps, Leonard J ArringtonARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article Brigham Young: American Moses. By Leonard J. Arrington. (New York: Knopf, 1985. xvii + 522 pp. Map, illustrations, table, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $24.95.) Get access Jan Shipps Jan Shipps Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10…

  • Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism

    Armand L Mau, Armand L Mauss et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1986

  • A Mormonism Miscellany

    Gary Shepherd, Richard L Bushman et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1986

    Journal Article Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984, 262 pp. $16.95 and Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984, 211 pp. $14.50 Get access Gary Shepherd Gary Shepherd Oakland University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall …

  • Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition

    Mark Noll, Jan ShippsARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

    Journal Article Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition Get access Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. By Shipps Jan. (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1985. xviii + 211 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $14.50.) Mark Noll Mark Noll Wheaton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 1986, Pages 348–349, https…

  • Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition

    Mario S De Pillis, Jan ShippsARTICLEJournal of American History1985Cited by: 3

    Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. By Jan Shipps. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xx + 211 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.50.) Mario S. De Pillis Mario S. De Pillis University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 663–664, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904310 Published:…

  • The Wars of America: Christian Views

    Jan Shipps, Ronald A WellsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1983

  • Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons

    Jan Shipps, Leonard J Arrington et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1979

    Journal Article Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons. By Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean L. May. (Salt Lake City: Deseret, 1976. xiii + 497 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, sources, and index. $7.95.) Get access Jan Shipps Jan Shipps Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…

  • Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah

    Jan Shipps, Claudia L BushmanARTICLEJournal of American History1979Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah. Ed. by Claudia L. Bushman. (Cambridge: Emmeline, 1976. xxxiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes, reading list, and index. Paper, $4.95.) Get access Jan Shipps Jan Shipps Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 143–144, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894718…

  • Manchester Mormons: The Journal of William Clayton, 1840 to 1842

    Jan Shipps, James B Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1976