Mormon-studies professorship, 1st outside UT

From the Los Angeles Times, this story goes into more detail about last week's appointment of Richard Lyman Bushman as a professor in Mormon studies in Calfornia's Claremont University graduate program. According to the article, \"non-Mormon academics and Mormon church leaders described Claremont's appointment... as a significant advance in serious scholarship about the religion, which is growing quickly worldwide but also raising puzzlement and even hostility.\"