- 69
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 32
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Scholars & Saints
Scholars & Saints is the official podcast of the University of Virginia’s Mormon Studies program, housed in the Department of Religious Studies. Scholars & Saints is a venue of public scholarship that promotes respectful dialogue about Latter Day Saint traditions among laypersons and academics.
- Publisher
- UVA Mormon Studies
- Category
- education · history · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 69 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026
Mormonisms in Asia (feat. Laurie Maffly-Kipp)
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Deseret Alphabet (feat. Ryan Shosted and Neal Davis)
5 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
C. C. A. Christensen: Mormon Iconographer (feat. Jennifer Champoux)
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The Deseret Alphabet (feat. Ryan Shosted and Neal Davis)
Published 9 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We began to catalog some of the things that were out there, which is the work that became what we call the Illinois Jeseret Consortium. And then it really started to focus into, you know, what would a book that attempted to tell this whole remarkable story look like? And of course, at that time, we were still in the vein that this was purely an orthographic reform project. We knew there were other arguments that had been put forward, such as secrecy or making it difficult for Mormons to read what they call Gentile literature at the time. And it was only through the course of doing the research into what they had said contemporaneously about the book that it really started to unfold for us, that this was a vastly more ambitious project than I think anyone in the 20th century or later had really come to realize at that point. […]
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- Laurie Maffly-Kipp
- Ryan Shosted
- Neal Davis
- Jennifer Champoux
- Richard Benjamin Crosby
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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- Quality
- 60
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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