The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle With Assimilation

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Summary: Objective, enlightening scholarship
Review: Mauss does a nice job of illuminating the origins of a trend many of us in the church have noticed in the last few decades. He shows how the right-wing, anti-intellectuals have no greater doctrinal support than others, but how they have seized control of many outlets that make their version of Mormonism seem normative.

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Summary: This book is false.
Review: This book is an ignorant, biased view of a brief time period of the Latter Day Saints and their religious ways. I found the text to be abhorible, and was unable to complete the third chapter. I would highly suggest you not purchase this abomination, as it is a waste of paper and ink. I am glad that I only borrowed this book, and never conceived the dememnted thought of acquiring it from my local bookstore.

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Summary: Objective
Review: This is not a warm fuzzy, feel good, faith promoting book. It is a fair, objective, social science aproach to the LDS church.