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Early life and education [ edit ]
Van Wagoner was a Lehi, Utah , native and a fifth-generation Mormon .[1] He was an Eagle Scout and was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the church's Central States Mission . In 1970, he graduated from Brigham Young University with an M.S. degree .
Trained as a clinical audiologist , he began professional practice in 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah .[1]
Van Wagoner wrote the books Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess and Mormon Polygamy: A History .[1] [2] His 1994 biography of Sidney Rigdon won awards from the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association .[1] [2]
Van Wagoner was a member of the board of Signature Books , and was described after his death as a "trailblazer in Mormon studies", having published historical articles in Utah Historical Quarterly , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , and Sunstone .[1] He lived in Lehi, Utah , and acted as the town's historical archivist.[1] [2]
Personal life [ edit ]
From the early 1980s, Van Wagoner lost his hearing due to otosclerosis ;[2] he received a cochlear implant in 2001, which partially restored his hearing.[2]
Van Wagoner died unexpectedly at his home in Lehi, Utah, at age 64.[1] [2]
Books
Van Wagoner, Richard S.; Steven C. Walker (1982), A Book of Mormons , Midvale, Utah: Signature Books, ISBN 978-0-941214-06-3
—— (1989) [1986], Mormon Polygamy: A History (2nd ed.), Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, ISBN 978-0-941214-79-7 , LCCN 85063399 , OCLC 19515803 , archived from the original on 2014-10-30
—— (1990), Lehi: Portraits of a Utah Town , Lehi, Utah: Lehi City Corp., ISBN 978-1-56085-001-4
—— (1994), Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess , Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, ISBN 978-1-56085-197-4
—— (2001), Pioneering Lehi City: A 150-Year Pictorial History , Lehi, Utah: Lehi City Corp., ISBN 978-0-9714191-0-0
Young, Brigham (2009), Richard Van Wagoner (ed.), The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young , vol. 5, Smith-Pettit Foundation, ISBN 978-1-56085-206-3
Articles
——; Walker, Steven C. (Summer 1982), "Joseph Smith: The Gift of Seeing" , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 15 (2 ): 48–68, doi :10.2307/45225078 , JSTOR 45225078 , S2CID 254395171 , archived from the original on 2011-06-14
—— (November–December 1983), "To Beard or Not to Beard" (PDF) , Sunstone (42 ): 8–10
—— (Fall 1985), "Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo" , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 18 (3 ): 67–83, doi :10.2307/45227986 , JSTOR 45227986 , S2CID 254343203
—— (Summer 1986), "Sarah Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate" , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 19 (2 ): 69–99, doi :10.2307/45225431 , JSTOR 45225431 , S2CID 254299794 , archived from the original on 2009-02-21
——; Steven C. Walker; Allen D. Roberts (Fall 1987), "The 'Lectures on Faith': A Case Study in Decanonization" , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 20 (3 ): 71–77, doi :10.2307/45225561 , JSTOR 45225561 , S2CID 254325099
——; Mary C. Van Wagoner (Spring 1988), "Orson Pratt, Jr.: Gifted Son of an Apostle and an Apostate" , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 21 (1 ): 84–94, doi :10.2307/45225710 , JSTOR 45225710 , S2CID 254324243
—— (Spring 1991), "The Lehi Sugar Factory—100 Years in Retrospect" , Utah Historical Quarterly , 59 (2 ): 189–204, doi :10.2307/45061979 , JSTOR 45061979 , S2CID 254430466 , archived from the original on 2011-06-13
—— (1994), "Lehi", in Powell, Allan Kent (ed.), Utah History Encyclopedia , Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press , ISBN 0874804256 , OCLC 30473917 , archived from the original on 2013-11-02
—— (1996), "Sidney and Me", Journal of Mormon History , 22 (1, 2): 151
—— (Spring–Summer 2001), "The Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young" , Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 34 (1, 2): 159–182, doi :10.2307/45226773 , JSTOR 45226773 , S2CID 254319448
Sunstone Symposium presentations
Bradley, Martha; Richard Van Wagoner (August 23, 1985). "Changed Faces: Official LDS Positions on Polygamy, 1890-1-80"
Van Wagoner, Richard S.; Lynne Watkins Jorgensen (August 12, 1995). "The Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young - and - The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Passes to Brother Brigham and the Twelve Apostles: A Collective Spiritual Witness"
Van Wagoner, Richard S. (August 17, 1996). "Sidney Rigdon and the Elect Sisterhood"
Ehat, Andrew E.; Richard S. Van Wagoner (August 22, 1996). "Pseudo-Polyandry: Explaining Mormon Polgyny's Paraboxical Companion"
Van Wagoner, Richard; Breck England (August 23, 1996). "Orson Pratt, Jr"
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_S._Van_Wagoner&oldid=1218441924 "
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