Book review: Confessions of Joanna, or towards a Mormonism Lite

By Ralph C. Hancock

For the Deseret News

Published: Thursday, April 5 2012 5:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

According to her own self-description, "Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and politics and an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture."

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Grant Hardy

Asheville, NC

Why would Deseret News publish a review that is merely a shortened version of something that has already appeared in Meridian Magazine? And that earlier article itself was derived from ideas in Hancock’s personal blog. Professor Hancock’s More..

5:44 a.m. April 6, 2012
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Pennsylvania

Narberth, PA

Despite his references to Rousseau and Saint Augustine, I'm afraid Ralph Hancock doesn't really understand the genre of the spiritual autobiography. Either that, or he doesn't think Mormons can be allowed to write them and still More..

7:22 a.m. April 6, 2012
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Martin Blank

Salt Lake City, UT

As someone who was at BYU at the same time Dr. Brooks was, who ran in some of the same circles and took the same classes from many of the same professors (though only one class with Joanna), I'd like to think I have an idea of where she's More..

9:22 a.m. April 6, 2012
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