Jan Shipps
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Jan Shipps | |
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Born | Jo Ann Barnett Shipps 1929 (age 94–95) |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Mormons in Politics (1965) |
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Discipline | |
Sub-discipline | History of the Latter Day Saint movement |
School or tradition | New Mormon history |
Institutions | Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis |
Jo Ann Barnett Shipps
Career as a scholar
Shipps has a Ph.D. in history. She taught at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis for many years and is now professor emeritus of history and religious studies. Her interest in Mormonism was sparked when she lived briefly with her young family in Logan, Utah[2] in 1960–61,[3] graduating from Utah State University in 1961.[4] She earned her PhD degree at University of Colorado Boulder in 1965, with a dissertation on The Mormons in Politics: The First Hundred Years.[5]
A lifelong practicing
Theories and arguments
Shipps has studied how perceptions of Mormons have changed over time and the process by which Latter Day Saints have gained a sense of distinctive self-identity. She has established academic standards for the use of the terms Latter Day Saint, Latter-day Saint, and Mormon for the various churches and movements that trace their origins back to
Recent contributions
In her 2000 book Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, Shipps documents what she calls, "the gathering of the scattered and the scattering of the gathering." Shipps details how the LDS Church changed its central gathering point from Utah to local stakes anywhere in the world as spiritual, cultural and physical gathering points.
Since retiring from being a professor, Shipps continues to write about Latter Day Saint history and consults with journalists about news on the movement. In 2005, she gave a paper on the LDS Church at a global religion at a conference commemorating Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, held at the Library of Congress. She also keynoted an April 2007 conference in Arkansas honoring early apostle Parley P. Pratt. The conference marked the sesquicentennial of Pratt's 1857 murder and the bicentennial of his birth.
Scholarly associations
Shipps has long been an avid promoter of scholarly associations. She has served as president of the MHA (1979–80),[6] the John Whitmer Historical Association (2004–05), and the American Society of Church History (2006).
Publications
As author:
- Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. 1987. ISBN 0-252-01417-0
- Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons. 2000. ISBN 0-252-02590-3– collected essays
As editor:
- with Welch, John W. The Journal of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836. 1994.
- with Silk, Mark. Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition (Religion by Region Series, #2). 2004. ISBN 0-7591-0626-6
Collections:
- Howard R. Lamar, Richard L. Bushman, Donald Worster, Jan Shipps. Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures. Merrill Library, 2004.
- Gerald D. Nash, Eugene England, Dean L. May, Jan Shipps, James B. Allen. Twentieth Century American West: Contributions to an Understanding. 1994.
Notes
- ^ See also: Symbolic annihilation.
References
- ISBN 978-0-252-02590-7. Retrieved November 16, 2010.
- S2CID 254394953.
- ^ Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd, Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait, Salt Lake City: Kofford, 2019, 31–40.
- ^ "Jan Shipps (Retired)". IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI: Faculty & Staff Directory. Indiana University. February 21, 2011.
- ^ Shepherd and Shepherd, Jan Shipps, 49.
- ^ "Past MHA Presidents". Mormon History Association. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
External links
- Brent Metcalfe (November 24, 2014). "Jan Shipps: New History of the Prairie and Mountain Saints; Race and Gender (interview)"(video). MormonStudiesPodcast.org.