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Introduction -- Biography. The private versus public David O. McKay: profile of a complex personality / Newell G. Bringhurst -- Sex and prophetic power: a comparison of John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida community, with Joseph Smith Jr., the Mormon prophet / Lawrence Foster -- Theory. Building community: the fundamentalist Mormon concept of space / Martha Bradley -- Mormon studies in a European setting / Douglas J. Davies -- Experience. Wilford Woodruff's vision of the signers of the Declaration of Independence / Brian H. Stuy -- "Congenial to almost every shade of radicalism": the Delaware Valley and the success of early Mormonism / Stephen Fleming -- A Mormon Bigfoot: David Patten's Cain and the conception of evil in LDS folklore / Matthew Bowman -- The forms of Mormon ritual healing to 1847 / Jonathan A. Stapley and Kristine Wright -- Memory. A uniform and common recollection: Joseph Smith's legacy, polygamy, and public memory, 1852-2002 / Stephen Taysom -- Replacing memory: Latter-day Saint use of historical monuments and narrative in the early twentieth century / Kathleen Flake -- Media/literature. The translator and the ghostwriter: Joseph Smith and W.W. Phelps / Samuel Brown -- "Scandalous film": the campaign to suppress anti-Mormon motion pictures, 1911-12 / Brian Q. Cannon and Jacob W. Olmstead -- Buckeye's laments: two early insider exposes of Mormon polygamy and their authorship / Gary James Bergera -- God's chosen people: Mormon representations of Judaism and the Jewish other in holocaust literature / Reinhold R. Hill -- Preaching the gospel of church and sex: Mormon women's fiction in the Young Woman's Journal / Rebecca de Schweinitz -- Edward Tullidge and the women of Mormondom / Claudia Bushman.