1. Isaiah Berlin, “The Concept of History,” in Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind (London: Chatto and Windus, 1997), 17–58. First published as “History and Theory: The Concept of Scientific History,” History and Theory 1, no. 1 (1960): 23.

2. Dirk Käsler, Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Oxford: Polity Press, 1988), 175–79.

3. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, “Anthropology and History,” in Essays in Social Anthropology (London: Faber and Faber, 1962), 46–65.

4. See the discussion by Jan Shipps and Gerald McDermott in this volume.

5. Rodney Stark, “The Rise of a New World Faith,” Review of Religious Research 26, no. 1 (1984): 23; Stark, “The Basis of Mormon Success: A Theoretical Application,” in Latter-day Saint Social Life, ed. James T. Duke (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1998), 66.

6. Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000), 243.

7. David Martin, Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990); Henri Gooren, Rich among the Poor: Church, Firm, and Household among Small-scale Entrepreneurs in Guatemala City (Utrecht: Thela Latin America Series, 1998).

8. Church Almanac 2001–2002 (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 2000), 148–52.

9. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 214.

10. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 85–86.

11. Cf. Mette Ramstad, Conversion in the Pacific: Eastern Polynesian Latter-day Saints’ Conversion Accounts and Their Development of a LDS Identity (Kristiansand, Norway: Norwegian Academic, 2003).

12. Douglas J. Davies, Introduction to Mormonism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 28–31; Douglas J. Davies, “Aspect of Latter-day Saint Eschatology,” in Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain, no. 6, ed. Michael Hill (London: SCM Press, 1973); Douglas J. Davies, Mormon Spirituality in Wales and Zion (Nottingham: Nottingham Series in Theology, 1987), 1–20.

13. Rodney Stark and W. S. Bainbridge, A Theory of Religion (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987); Stark, The Rise of Christianity (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997), 167, 169.

14. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 20, 128–30, 228–30.

15. Karl Rahner, On the Theology of Death (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972), 83.

16. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 70–72.

17. Davies, Introduction to Mormonism, 181.

18. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 152.

19. See Robert L. Millet, Grace Works (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003).

20. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 54–60.

21. Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, rev. ed. (Berkeley: University of California, 2000), 497; John Hick, Evil and the God of Love (London: Macmillan, 1985); Robert F. Evans, Pelagius: Inquiries and Reappraisals (London: A. & C. Black, 1968).

22. See Davies, Introduction to Mormonism, 242.

23. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 56–57.

24. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 130–31.

25. Davies, Introduction to Mormonism, 252. See, for example, Phillip Tovey, Inculturation of Christian Worship (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004).

26. Davies, Mormon Culture of Salvation, 241.

27. John L. Sorenson, Mormon Culture: Four Decades of Essays on Mormon Society and Personality (Salt Lake City: New Sage Books, 1997), 93.

28. Words by John Ellerton, 1870.

29. Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet (New York: Knopf, 1945; repr., New York: Vintage Books, 1995), 377.

30. Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (1952; repr., London: Collins, 1962), 164.

31. Tillich, The Courage to Be, 165.

32. Tillich, The Courage to Be, 165.

33. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, vii.

34. Two further sources referenced but not directly cited are: Hans J. Mol, Identity and the Sacred: A Sketch for a New Social-Scientific Theory of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell, 1976); Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (New York: Free Press, 1947).

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