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Citizenship
  
American

Fields
  
Sociology

Name
  
Armand Mauss

Spouse
  
Ruth E. Hathaway

Alma mater
  
Sophia University


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Born
  
June 5, 1928 (age 95) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. (
1928-06-05
)

Institutions
  
Washington State University

Education
  
University of California, Berkeley, Sophia University

Books
  
The angel and the beehive, All Abraham's Children, Shifting Borders and a Tatt

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Armand Lind Mauss (born 5 June 1928) is an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of religion. He is professor emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Washington State University, is the most often published sociologist in the twentieth century of works on the Mormons, and is broadly recognized as one of the leading Mormon intellectuals of his generation.

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Academic work

Mauss joined the Washington State University faculty of sociology in 1969, formally retiring there in 1999. During his career, he taught and published in several different fields of sociology and social problems, but his work in the sociology of religion was ultimately the most visible. He has enjoyed invitations as a visiting professor to several universities in California, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In 2004, he was invited as a visiting scholar to the School of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University in California, where he taught courses on the history and sociology of the Mormons and helped to develop the Council for the Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Howard W. Hunter Chair in Mormon Studies, first occupied by Richard L. Bushman.

Author or editor of five books and scores of academic articles, Mauss also served as editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He has received three different awards from the Mormon History Association for his books and other works, and two from the Dialogue Foundation for his articles in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the major scholarly journal in Mormon Studies, independent of Church auspices. Mauss had a formative influence on the rise and survival of Dialogue, serving 20 years on its editorial or advisory boards, and then ten years as either chairman or member of the Dialogue Foundation's Board of Directors. Mauss also served as president of the Mormon History Association from 1997–1998. He taught at Utah State University where he was a favorite of many students.

Biography

Mauss was born on 5 June 1928, in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in California, graduating from Oakland High School in 1946. A lifelong Mormon, he served a full-time, two-year mission as a youth for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New England, and throughout his life in many other lay ecclesiastical roles. In 1949, he accompanied his family to Japan where his father was sent to preside over the work of the Church in east Asia. In 1954 Mauss graduated from Sophia University of Tokyo, a distinguished Jesuit institution, with a B.A. in History and Asian Studies. While in Japan, he was also inducted into the U.S. Air Force, serving four years in military intelligence. During that period he was married to Ruth E. Hathaway. They eventually became parents of six sons and two daughters. After returning to California, Mauss earned his M. A. degree in 1957 (history, with an emphasis on Asia) and in 1970 his Ph.D. in sociology (with a dissertation titled Mormonism and Minorities), both at the University of California, Berkeley.

Publications

Books
  • Mauss, Armand L. (1975). Social Problems as Social Movements. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. ISBN 0-397-47325-7. Retrieved 10 September 2017. 
  • Kanda, Shigeo Harold; Mauss, Armand L. (1975). The Self and the System: A View from the East: Selections and Commentary. Los Angeles: Western Humanities Center, UCLA Extension. 
  • Mauss, Armand L.; Wolfe, Julie Camille, eds. (1977). This Land of Promises: The Rise and Fall of Social Problems in America. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. ISBN 0-397-47371-0. 
  • Bush, Lester E., Jr.; Mauss, Armand L., eds. (1984). Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Encounter the Race Issue in a Universal Church. Midvale, Utah: Signature Books. ISBN 0-941-21422-2. Retrieved 10 September 2017. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (1 April 1994). The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02071-5. Retrieved 10 September 2017. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (April 2003). All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02803-1. Retrieved 10 September 2017. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (30 November 2012). Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 1-607-81204-5. Retrieved 10 September 2017. 
    • Representative essays and articles
  • Mauss, Armand L. (1968). "Mormon Semitism and Anti-Semitism". Sociological Analysis. 29 (1): 11–27. 
  • Mauss, Armand L.; Jenness, Valerie (16 November 2000). "Social Problems". In Borgatta, Edgar F.; Montgomery, Rhonda J. V. Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd ed.). New York: Macmillan Reference, USA. pp. 2759–2766. ISBN 0-028-64853-6. 
  • Mauss, Armand L.; Hammons, Stacy A. (December 2000). "Attaining 'a Sophisticated Maturity': A Brief History of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 39 (4): 449–473. ISSN 0021-8294. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2000.tb00008.x. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (2001). "Flowers, Weeds, and Thistles: The State of Social Science Literature on the Mormons". In Walker, Ronald W.; Whittaker, David J.; Allen, James B. Mormon History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 153–197. ISBN 0-252-02619-5. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (2007). "The Emergence of Mormon Studies in the Social Sciences". In Blasi, Anthony J. American Sociology of Religion: Histories. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 121–150. ISBN 9-004-16115-5. Retrieved 12 September 2017. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (29 January 2008). "From Near Nation to World Religion". In Jacobson, Cardell K.; Hoffmann, John P.; Heaton, Tim B. Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons: Contemporary Perspectives. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. pp. 289–327. ISBN 0-874-80920-7. 
  • "Can There be a 'Second Harvest'? : Controlling the Costs of Latter-day Saint Membership in Europe". International Journal of Mormon Studies. 1: 1–59. Spring 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2017. 
  • Mauss, Armand (2008). "Mormons and Race". In Schaefer, Richard T. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (Vol. 2). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Retrieved 12 September 2017. 
  • Mauss, Armand L. (2009). "The Mormon Church and its Intellectuals: Traditions and Transitions". Archivio Teologico Torinese. 15 (2): 358–385. ISSN 1591-2957. 

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