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Course on Mormonism at Harvard
You'd think we haven't been around for nearly 200 years.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...il_to_a_friend
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If it really is true that colleges are scrambling to offer such curricula, then maybe Mike Quinn will finally find a job.
My understanding is that up until now the only places he could teach were church schools (obvious why he can't) or public/private institutions whose Mormon studies have been endowed by LDS, effectively black balling him. Whether you agree with the guy or not, he is a pioneer in the field and it shouldn't be the case that he can't find work assume there is interest. Maybe this will help him. P.S. The lady teaching the class at Harvard is LDS. I know the family.
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He is a gay excommunicated Mormon who has written things that have made apologists mad. That's why he is persona non grata among some Mormons.
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If you mean why couldn't he teach at a church school, see the answers above. If you mean why would he be limited to those schools, because is a scholar whose area of expertise is LDS history and there just aren't very many places that have that job description.
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I have a friend getting her doctorate at Claremont (in California), and she told me a few months ago they had just received a large endowment for a Mormon studies program there. http://www.cgu.edu/pages/1825.asp
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