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Terryl L. Givens

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born

April 27, 1957 in The United States

gender

male

website

http://terrylgivens.com/

genre

Religion & Spirituality, History, Literature & Fiction

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Terryl L. Givens was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did his graduate work in Intellectual History (Cornell) and Comparative Literature (Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill, 1988), working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English languages and literatures. As Professor of Literature and Religion, and the James A. Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Richmond, he teaches courses in Romanticism, nineteenth-century cultural studies, and the Bible and Literature. He has published in literary theory, British and European Romanticism, Mormon studies, and intellectual history.

Dr. Givens has authored several books, including The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (Oxford 1...more

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Books by Terryl L. Givens

Average rating: 4.12 · 295 ratings · 84 reviews · 9 distinct works

	By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion 4.25 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture 4.01 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Mormon 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism by Terryl L. Givens, Matthew J. Grow 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Viper on the Hearth 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Joseph Smith Jr. Reappraisals After Two Centuries by Reid L. Nielson (Editor), Reid L. Nielson 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision by A. Scott Howe (Editor), Richard L. Bushman (Editor), Terryl L. Givens (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating: