Contents:

LETTERS

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report / George D. Smith
Personality and Motivation in Utah Historiography / Gary Topping
Intellect and Faith: The Controversy Over Revisionist Mormon History / Clara V. Dobay
The "New Social History" and the "New Mormon History": Reflections on Recent Trends / Roger D. Launius
The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and Identity: Trends and Developments Since Midcentury / Armand L. Mauss
The Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism / Massimo Introvigne
Spiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts on the Similarities and Differences / Michael W. Homer
The "Moral" Atonement As a Mormon Interpretation / Lorin K. Hansen
The Coyote Hunter / Tracie Lamb-Kwon

SCRIPTURAL STUDIES
Gnosticism Reformed / Bertrand C. Barrois

FICTION
Strong Like Water / Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner

POETRY
Jesus is Coming / Brent Pace
Sariah / Marni Asplund-Campbell
Mummy Pendulum / David Paxman
Movements Giving Off Light / Dixie Partridge
Hobby Horses / Lance Larsen
To Joseph of Nazareth: Patron Saint of Fathers Dispossessed / Harlow Soderborg Clark
Ireland / Brent Pace

REVIEWS
Prisoner of Ideals: Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87 edited by Stan Larson / K. C. Benedict
Easy-to-Read: A Consumer's Report: The Easy-to-Read Book of Mormon: Based on the Work Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. by Lynn Matthews Anderson / Christian N. K. Anderson
Women's Rights: Women's Rights in Old Testament Times by James R. Baker / Alan C. Tull

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ART CREDITS
Artwork / Brad Teare