The future of Mormonism

Patheos has launched, as the latest installment in its “Future of Religion” series, a discussion on the future of Mormonism.  Previous discussions have focused on Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, and Evangelicalism.  The purpose of each has been, contra the assumption “that religion would decline throughout the world as scientific ideas spread,” to reflect more fully upon the trends, institutions, challenges, and responses that may characterize different religious traditions — and their study — in the modern world.

Contributors to the “Future of Mormonism” series include Philip Barlow, Tresa Edmunds, Grant Hardy, Armand L. Mauss, and Jan Shipps. Read more here.

David Walker is Assistant Professor of American Religious History at the University of Santa Barbara. He earned his PhD from Yale University in 2013 and is a regular contributor to here & there. His work focuses on religion and land policy in the nineteenth-century American West, specifically looking at the ways in which 'religion' is evoked amidst debates over Utahn 'public land,' its development, and its cartography.

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