BACKGROUND BOOKS

BACKGROUND BOOKS

Jan Shipps

or Latter-day Saints, "once upon a time"
 
was yesterday. Perhaps a majority of to-day's adult Saints grew up in a different uni- verse, one insulated from the larger culture, a world that was divided between "them" and "us." Young Saints learned how to recognize "the other" before they learned their ABCs. To- day much of this has changed: "By 1980," writes religious historian Martin Marty, "the Mormons had grown to be. ..like everyone e...

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