Milton V. Backman Jr.
Dr. Backman is associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University. His American Religions and the Rise of Mormonism (1965) is a landmark in the field.
BYU Studies Publications
- A Non-Mormon View of the Birth of Mormonism in Ohio
- Awakenings in the Burned-Over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the First Vision
- Doctrine and the Temple in Nauvoo
- Eerdmans' Handbook to Christianity in America
- From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690–1765
- Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630–1875
- Membership of Certain of Joseph Smith's Family in the Western Presbyterian Church of Palmyra
- Religion in America
- Spectrum of Protestant Beliefs
- The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
- The Quest for a Restoration: The Birth of Mormonism in Ohio
- The Social Origins of the Kirtland Mormons
- Truman Coe's 1836 Description of Mormonism