John G. Turner teaches religious studies and history at George Mason University. He is the author of Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet (2025) and the co-author of the podcast Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History (2024).
John G. Turner
Articles
Unveiling a Hidden Narrative
John G. Turner explores Molly Worthen’s “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump.”
A Church Full of Females: A New History of Mormon Women
As the title of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s 2007 book affirms, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History — like Mormon women.
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