This volume celebrates the Church's first hundred years among the Japanese. The articles explore such issues as the Japanese presses' portrayal of Mormonism and answer questions such as what the historical and cultural challenges are to successful missionary work in Japan; why the Book of Mormon needed to be translated three times in one century; and whether Latter-day Saint converts hail from specific areas based on the regions religious traditions.

Taking the Gospel to the Japanese, 1901-2001 (Studies in Latter-Day Saint History)

Reid Larkin Neilson

BYU Studies

Since 1990 the LDS International Society has hosted an annual conference on the globalization of Mormonism at Brigham Young University. Noted speakers such as President Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Elder John K. Carmack addressed topics including Joseph Smith and the world, missionary work in a global village, humanitarian outreach and the Latter-day Saints, Church education initiatives in an era of globalization, and international challenges facing the Church. Global Mormonism In The 21st Century offers an unprecedented view of how a fledgling American church continues to mature into a significant international religious movement.

Global Mormonism in the 21st Century

Religious Studies Center, Brig

Young Latter-day Saint missionaries, both men and women, dressed in white shirts and dark suits or conservative dresses, have become the public face of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the twenty-first century. On June 25, 2007, just over 175 years since Joseph Smith's brother, Samuel, first set out to proselyte with a knapsack filled with copies of the Book of Mormon, the one millionth Mormon missionary was beginning his two-year service. He joined the other 53,000 full-time young men and young women who were then evangelizing in the Church's approximately 350 missions around the world. Yet the 2007 Latter-day Saint landmark and its implication for religions in America and abroad remains one of the most unremarked-upon developments in historical and religious studies. The study of Mormon missiology need not — and should not — continue to fall through the cracks of traditional Christian mission histories. The collection of essays published within this book is an

Go Ye Into All the World: The Growth & Development of Mormon Missionary Work

Religion & Spirituality

Published by the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University

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Taking the Gospel to the Japanese, 1901-2001 (Studies in Latter-Day Saint History)

Global Mormonism in the 21st Century

Go Ye Into All the World: The Growth & Development of Mormon Missionary Work