Review: Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey, eds. The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019.

Authors

Camden Burd

Keywords

environmental history, Mormon theology, faith, natural world, contributors

Abstract

The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History fits into an established trend in environmental history. Over the past decades, historians from Lynn White Jr. to Mark R. Stoll have established the religious roots of environmental change in human history.1 Like those scholars, the contributors to this collection seek to understand the complicated and interconnected relationship between theology, faith, and the natural world. Divided across three sections, The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden provides a much-welcomed examination of the environmental aspects of Mormon theology, culture, and history.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Burd, Camden (2021) "Review: Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey, eds. The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 8: No. 1, Article 25.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol8/iss1/25