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Saints Without Halos The Human Side of Mormon History LEONARD J. ARRINGTON and DAVIS BITTON Hardback. 166 Pages. / 0-941214-01-X / $10.95 Unlike most Mormon histories, Saints Without Halos is a treatment of the human, rather than institutional side of Mormon history. Through the fascinating experiences of seventeen Latter-day Saints, Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton sketch Mormonism from its earliest beginnings to modern times. These are Saints presented not as objects of veneration, but as "human beings who, like the rest of us, struggle to be worthy of the title Latter-day Saint."
Davis Bitton, Professor of History at the University of Utah, is co-author (with Leonard J. Arrington) of the widely acclaimed book The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. He compiled the exhaustive reference, A Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, and is the sole author of several other books and numerous articles on Mormon history. Born in Blackfoot, Idaho, in 1930, Bitton received degrees from Brigham Young and Princeton universities, and has taught at the University of Texas and the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
Leonard J. Arrington was Church Historian for the LDS church and Lemuel H. Redd Professor of Western History at Brigham Young University, as well as director of the school's Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. He died in 1999. Among his many books are the award-winning Brigham Young: American Moses and the classic Great Basin Kingdom. He co-authored | Signature Books Library | Joseph Smith | Book of Mormon | LDS Temples |
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