What to read after Sojourner in the Promised Land?

Over the course of four decades, Jan Shipps has become the preeminent non-Mormon interpreter of Mormonism. This important work assembles writings about this tradition by Shipps during the past thirty years, much of it published here for the first time. Sojourner in the Promised Land also presents an unusual parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. Combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time reveals her experience of being an intimate outsider in a culture that remains for her both familiar and strange. By being in the right place at the right time, Shipps was able to observe firsthand Mormonism's conversion from a provincial to a universal belief system, a dramatic transformation highly pertinent to contexts far removed from Mormonism. - Publisher.