Joseph R Stuart
Biographic Data
| ID | 820387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph R Stuart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph R |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuart |
| SIGNATURE | STUART J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862
A Shared Endeavor
when quincy newell and benjamin park stepped into their role as editors of the Mormon Studies Review in 2019, they inherited a journal in the midst of transformation. The most notable changes involved its editorial base and its evolving engagement with broader currents in religious studies. Under their guidance, the Review not only maintained its reputation as “a one-stop shop source for discussions of current scholarship on Mormonism” but also a…
Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay
Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
More than two hundred articles, book chapters, and books have been written about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ racial restriction. The vast majority of historical work on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ racial restrictions train their focus on the history of racial exclusion in the Church's first one hundred years. This corpus of scholarship addresses the racial restriction's origins and incorporation into core…
Evaluating Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Racial Restriction
when lester bush published his 1973 article “Mormonism's Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview,” he laid out a new historiography on the Latter-day Saint racial restriction by identifying the problems with scholars assuming that Joseph Smith, rather than his successor Brigham Young, established his church's racial policies and doctrines.1Since Bush's monumental 1973 work, scholars have published over two hundred peer-reviewed articles, book chap…
Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel . By Val Holley
Journal Article Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel. By Val Holley Get access Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel. By Val Holley. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020. xi + 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Joseph R Stuart Joseph R Stuart University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western His…
Racial Formation and Re-formation in Twentieth-Century Civil Rights Movements
Racial Formation and Re-formation in Twentieth-Century Civil Rights Movements Joseph R. Stuart (bio) Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States. By Ruben Flores. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 353 pages. $29.95 (paper). Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City. By Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Chapel Hill: Univer…
A More Powerful Effect upon the Body: Early Mormonism's Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race
This paper examines Joseph Smith's construction of a racialized theology, which drew upon conceptions of Abrahamic lineage and the possibility of "racial redemption" for peoples of African descent through conversion to Mormonism. This ran against the grain of his Protestant and Catholic contemporaries' religious understandings of race. He expanded upon earlier iterations of his ideas with the introduction of new rituals and liturgy related to LDS…
A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration
Book Review| January 01 2016 A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr, eds. A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2011. xi + 695 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover: $29.99. ISBN 978-0-8425-2785-9. Joseph R. Stuart Joseph R. Stuart Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
A More Powerful Effect upon the Body: Early Mormonism's Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race
This paper examines Joseph Smith's construction of a racialized theology, which drew upon conceptions of Abrahamic lineage and the possibility of "racial redemption" for peoples of African descent through conversion to Mormonism. This ran against the grain of his Protestant and Catholic contemporaries' religious understandings of race. He expanded upon earlier iterations of his ideas with the introduction of new rituals and liturgy related to LDS…
A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration
Book Review| January 01 2016 A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr, eds. A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2011. xi + 695 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover: $29.99. ISBN 978-0-8425-2785-9. Joseph R. Stuart Joseph R. Stuart Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Racial Formation and Re-formation in Twentieth-Century Civil Rights Movements
Racial Formation and Re-formation in Twentieth-Century Civil Rights Movements Joseph R. Stuart (bio) Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States. By Ruben Flores. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 353 pages. $29.95 (paper). Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City. By Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Chapel Hill: Univer…
A More Powerful Effect upon the Body: Early Mormonism's Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race
This paper examines Joseph Smith's construction of a racialized theology, which drew upon conceptions of Abrahamic lineage and the possibility of "racial redemption" for peoples of African descent through conversion to Mormonism. This ran against the grain of his Protestant and Catholic contemporaries' religious understandings of race. He expanded upon earlier iterations of his ideas with the introduction of new rituals and liturgy related to LDS…
Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel . By Val Holley
Journal Article Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel. By Val Holley Get access Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel. By Val Holley. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020. xi + 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Joseph R Stuart Joseph R Stuart University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western His…
Evaluating Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Racial Restriction
when lester bush published his 1973 article “Mormonism's Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview,” he laid out a new historiography on the Latter-day Saint racial restriction by identifying the problems with scholars assuming that Joseph Smith, rather than his successor Brigham Young, established his church's racial policies and doctrines.1Since Bush's monumental 1973 work, scholars have published over two hundred peer-reviewed articles, book chap…
Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
More than two hundred articles, book chapters, and books have been written about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ racial restriction. The vast majority of historical work on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ racial restrictions train their focus on the history of racial exclusion in the Church's first one hundred years. This corpus of scholarship addresses the racial restriction's origins and incorporation into core…
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862
A Shared Endeavor
when quincy newell and benjamin park stepped into their role as editors of the Mormon Studies Review in 2019, they inherited a journal in the midst of transformation. The most notable changes involved its editorial base and its evolving engagement with broader currents in religious studies. Under their guidance, the Review not only maintained its reputation as “a one-stop shop source for discussions of current scholarship on Mormonism” but also a…
Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay
American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Art history (2 works)