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Jan Shipps | |
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 Shipps addressing a meeting of the John Whitmer Historical Association in 2003 | |
| Born | Jo Ann Barnett Shipps 1929 (age 94–95) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Mormons in Politics (1965) |
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| Discipline | |
| Sub-discipline | History of the Latter Day Saint movement |
| School or tradition | New Mormon history |
| Institutions | Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis |
Jo Ann Barnett Shipps[1] (born 1929), known as Jan Shipps, is an American historian specializing in Mormon history, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century to the present. Shipps is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Latter Day Saint movement, having given particular attention to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Her first book on the subject was Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition published by the University of Illinois Press. In 2000, the University of Illinois Press published her book Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, in which she interweaves her own history of Mormon-watching with 16 essays on Mormon history and culture.
- ^ Full name from Shipps, Jan (2000). Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-0-252-02590-7. Retrieved November 16, 2010.