Review: Irén Annus, David Morris, and Kim Östman, eds. Mormonism in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Szeged, Hungary: Americana Ebooks, 2018.

Authors

Mees Tielens

Keywords

Mormonism, missionary work, globalization, American colonialism, local perspectives

Abstract

If books about Mormonism “abroad” (that is, Mormonism outside the United States) have a formula, it tends to be along the following lines: focusing heavily on missionary work, they list dates that missionaries arrive, successes and failures in opening up a country to the gospel, perhaps culminating in the triumphant announcement of or, better yet, the actual building of a temple to prove the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ viability and longevity in that place. Rarely are local contexts taken into account or meaningfully explored; rarely are these books written from anything other than the perspective of an American religious colonizer.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Tielens, Mees (2020) "Review: Irén Annus, David Morris, and Kim Östman, eds. Mormonism in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Szeged, Hungary: Americana Ebooks, 2018.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol7/iss1/13