Article Title

Maxwell Institute Summer Seminar: “The Gold Plates as Cultural Artifact”

Authors

Richard Lyman Bushman

Keywords

Gold Plates, Mormon culture, tradition, seminar

Abstract

For six weeks this past summer, eight scholars from all over the United States and from Eu- rope met daily in the Maxwell Institute library to discuss and research the topic “The Cultural History of the Gold Plates.” They were the lat- est rendition of a seminar that has met every summer since 1997 under the direction of Richard Bushman, with the aid of Terryl Givens and Claudia Bushman, to explore as- pects of Mormon culture.

Recommended Citation

Bushman, Richard Lyman (2012) "Maxwell Institute Summer Seminar: “The Gold Plates as Cultural Artifact”," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 32: No. 3, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol32/iss3/1