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John G. Turner

Bylines

Lusting for Zion

A new book questions what we think we know about heterosexuality and Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.

by John G. Turner via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 23, 2025
Religion and the U.S. Census

Did the Census Bureau's practice of collecting data on religious bodies violate the separation of church and state?

by John G. Turner via American Religious Ecologies on October 7, 2019

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet

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Joseph Smith reading the Book of Mormon to followers.

Leveraging Belief

Joseph Smith, religious innovator.

by Gerardo Martí via Commonweal on September 23, 2025

The book cover for "They Knew They Were Pilgrims."

A History of the Pilgrims That Neither Idolizes Nor Demonizes Them

Historian John Turner tells the story of Plymouth Colony with nuance and care.

by Grant Wacker via The Christian Century on January 14, 2021

An illustration of a pilgrim looking toward the sky with a group of others gathered around kneeling.

What Liberty Meant to the Pilgrims

Most adult men could aspire to participation in the religious and political government of the colony. But this communal liberty did not imply personal liberty.

by Nathanael Blake via National Review on June 18, 2020

Brigham Young

The Reds Under Romney’s Bed

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.

by Mike Davis via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 25, 2012

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