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Provo, UT 84602
Spencer Fluhman
Brigham Young University, History, Faculty Member
- J. Spencer Fluhman is executive director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and associate pro... moreJ. Spencer Fluhman is executive director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and associate professor of history at Brigham Young University. He graduated summa cum laude from BYU and received masters and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research takes up the question of religious identity and the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Mormon History, BYU Studies Quarterly, and Mormon Historical Studies. His article, "An 'American Mahomet': Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problem of Prophets in Antebellum America," (Journal of Mormon History, 2008) won the T. Edgar Lyon Award for Best Article of the Year from the Mormon History Association in 2009. His first book, “A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2012) won the Mormon History Association’s Best First Book Award in 2013. In 2014, he won the Mollie & Karl Butler Young Scholar Award in Western Studies from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. He is currently at work on a biography of LDS apostle James E. Talmage (under contract, Oxford University Press). He serves as co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Mormon Studies Group, on the Council of the American Society of Church History, and as editor-in-chief of Mormon Studies Review.edit
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... thousands of his saints (Jude 1:14). In the Book of Moses, Enoch is given a divine com-mission to call the wicked to repentance and shown expansive visions con-cerning the last days. He gathers the righteous together and builds ...