© Columbia University Press
Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
November, 2003
Cloth, 352 pages, 39 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12640-3
$42.00
/ £24.50
"Equal Rites is an imaginative and ambitious book." — Grant Underwood, Journal of American History
"This is an important book on the history of American religion, culture, and society." — Choice
"[Equal Rites] is well written and engaging." — D.E. Mills Jr., Reviews in Religion and Theology
"A uniquely insightful answer to scholars' recent calls for greater understanding of Mormon theology, culture, and institutional character." — Religous Studies Review
"Forsberg’s work is unique in basing its secular analysis so solidly on a book that has been typically dismissed as an eccentric religious text. Beyond his Masonic reading of the Book of Mormon, the major contribution of the work is its ability to see Mormonism in the widest context of religious systems of the time. Forsberg’s scholarly perspective and his wide sophistication in the study of religion give the book a special interest to students of religion. The book’s insights into the connections and contrasts of religious ideas from a vast canvas make it not only a new view of Mormonism but, perhaps more important, a new view of America of the period." — Alfred L. Bush, curator of Princeton Collections of Western Americana, Princeton University