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Armand Lind Mauss
Armand Mauss
Mauss in 2016
Born(1928-06-05)June 5, 1928
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
DiedAugust 1, 2020(2020-08-01) (aged 92)
Irvine, California, US
Spouse
Ruth E. Hathaway
​
(m. 1951)​
Children8
Academic background
Mormon history
Institutions
Notable worksAll Abraham's Children (2003)

Armand Lind Mauss (June 5, 1928 – August 1, 2020) was an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of religion. He was Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Washington State University and was the most frequently published author of Sociology works on Mormons during his long career. A special conference on his work in Mormon studies was held in 2013 at California's Claremont Graduate University (CGU), the papers from which were subsequently published by the University of Utah Press in the format of a Festschrift, where he was honored as "one of the most prominent Mormon intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."[1][2]

Early life and family

Mauss was born on 5 June 1928 in

Ph.D. in Sociology, with a dissertation titled Mormonism and Minorities, both at the University of California, Berkeley.[5]

Academic work

After several years of

Richard L. Bushman.[10]

Author or editor of several books and scores of academic articles, Mauss also served as editor of the

Mormon Studies.[12] Mauss had a formative influence on the rise and survival of Dialogue, serving 20 years on its editorial or advisory boards and then ten years as either chairman or member of the Dialogue Foundation's board of directors. Mauss was, additionally, president of the Mormon History Association from 1997 to 1998.[13]

Publications

Books
Representative essays and articles
  • "Mormonism and Secular Attitudes toward Negroes," Pacific Sociological Review 9(2):91–99l (1966). (Journal later renamed Sociological Perspectives.)
  • "Mormon Semitism and Anti-Semitism," Sociological Analysis 29(1):11–27 (1968). (Journal later renamed Sociology of Religion.)
  • "Skidders and their Servants: Variable Goals and Functions of the Skidroad 'Rescue Mission,'" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 13(4):421–36 (1974). (Second author with Reginald W. Bibby.)
  • "On Being Strangled by the Stars and Stripes:The New Left, the Old Left, and the Natural History of American Radical Movements," Journal of Social Issues 27(1):183–202 (1971).
  • The Problematic Prospects for Prevention: Should Alcohol Education Programs Be Expected to Reduce Drinking by Youth? Journal of Studies on Alcohol 49(1): 51-61 (1988). (First author with Ronald H. Hopkins, Ralph A. Weisheit, and Kathleen A. Kearney.)
  • Salvation and Survival on Skid Row: A Critical Comment, Social Forces 60(3): 898-904 (1982).
  • "Strictly Speaking . . . : Kelley's Quandary and the Vineyard Christian Fellowship," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion32(2):125–135 (1993). (Second author with Robin D Perrin.)
  • "Apostasy and the Management of Spoiled Identity" in The Politics of Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements, ed. David G. Bromley (New York: Praeger, 1998), 51–73.
  • "Mormonism's Worldwide Aspirations and Its Changing Conceptions of Race and Lineage," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 34(3-4):103–133 (2001).
  • "The Emergence of Mormon Studies in the Social Sciences, in "American Sociology of Religion: Histories," ed. Anthony J. Blasi (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007), 121–150.
  • "Seeking the 'Second Harvest'? Controlling the Costs of Latter-day Saint Membership in Europe," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 41:1–54 (2008).
  • Authority and Dissent among the Latter-day Saints, in The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism, eds. Terry L. Givens and Philip Barlow (New York and Oxford, UK:Oxford University Press,2015).

References

Notes

  1. ISBN 9781607814764
    .
  2. ^
    Orange County Register. August 11, 2020. Archived
    from the original on October 15, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
  3. ^ Mauss 2012, p. 7–12.
  4. ^ Mauss 2012, p. 15–16.
  5. OCLC 29492299
    .
  6. ^ Mauss 2012, p. 17–22.
  7. ^ The Flame (Alumni magazine, Claremont Graduate University), Summer, 2011, page 7.
  8. ^ The Flame (CGU Alumni magazine), Spring, 2012, pages 4 & 5.
  9. ^ Howard W. Hunter Foundation – Claremont Mormon Studies Archived 2017-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ The Flame, Spring, 2008, page 13.
  11. ^ "MHA Past Award Recipients".
  12. ^ Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring, 1973, page 115; Spring, 1997, page 6.
  13. ^ "Past Conferences". Mormon History Association. Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved May 26, 2021.

Works cited

External links
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