Danny Jorgensen


Danny Lynn Jorgensen is an American professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of South Florida, for which he also served as chair from 1999 to 2006.
Jorgensen has been active in the John Whitmer Historical Association since the late 1980s, serving as its president from 1996 to 1997.

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology, Ohio State University, 1979, Linguistics minor. Dissertation: "Tarot Divination in the Valley of the Sun: An Existential Sociology of the Esoteric and Occult."
  • M.A., Sociology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, 1974, Thesis: "The Social Construction of Professional Knowledge: Illustrative Empirical Patterns in Social Work, 1956-1973."
  • B.S., Sociology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 1972, extended major, including field work.

    Journal articles

  • The Rise of Mormonism. By Rodney Stark. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Choice.
  • Images of the New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Factions Interpretations of Independence, Missouri. By Craig S. Campbell. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Choice.
  • Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture. By Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. New York: Columbia Press, 2004. Choice.
  • An Introduction to Mormonism. By Douglas J. Davies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Choice.
  • All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage. By Armand L. Mauss. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Choice.
  • Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion. By Michael York. New York: New York University, 2003. Choice 41 : 357.
  • By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion. By Terryl L. Givens. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Choice 40 : 999.
  • "Introduction to Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought," Journal of the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion 8 : 79–88
  • One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church. By Richard Abanes. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. Choice 40 : 484.
  • Mormon History. By Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Choice 39 : 261.
  • "," Journal of Mormon History 27 : 95–126.
  • The New Believers: Sects,"Cults" and Alternative Religions. By David V. Barrett. London: Cassell, 2001. Choice 39 : 283.
  • Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion. By Eric A. Eliason. Choice 39 : 294.
  • The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Gory. By Douglas J. Davies, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000. Choice 38 : 300.
  • Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity, and Empowerment. By Wendy Griffin. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira, 2000. Sociology of Religion.