Joseph Smith, Jr., is the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and is regarded as a divine prophet and the
translator of The Book of Mormon, having been given the divine gift
of interpretation after he was led to the golden plates on which
the book was written. He translated the book in 1829.
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, PhD, is the Archer Alexander Distinguished
Professor at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
at Washington University in St. Louis. Herpublications are many and
include Women's Work- From Antebellum America to the Harlem
Renaissance; American Scriptures- An Anthology of Sacred Writings;
and Setting Down the Sacred Past- African-American Race Histories.
Maffly-Kipp taught for twenty-four years at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in Religious Studies and American
Studies.She holds a PhD in American History from Yale University.
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