FROM ENIGMA TO MADNESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH VALEEN TIPPETTS AVERY Northern Arizona University professor VALEEN TIPPETTS AVERY is well-known to students of Mormon history for two groundbreaking and highly celebrated books: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith (1984),which she co-authored with Linda King Newell, and From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet (1998) …
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Church Hounds Woman to Madness: The Trials of Cora Birdsall
“Church Hounds Woman to Madness”: The Trials of Cora Birdsall The case of Cora Birdsall, a single Mormon woman, who in 1901 fought the Church over property rights, provides an extraordinary study of the collision between church and federal land law, the differences in ecclesiastical and civil court processes, and the struggle of a faithful …
RELIGION AND MENTAL ILLNESS: From Mission to Madness, Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
RELIGION AND MENTAL ILLNESS: From Mission to Madness, Last Son of the Mormon Prophet Valeen Tippets Avery, William D. Russell, Marvin Hill