Growing Up in the City of the Saints: Glimpses of America in Salt Lake City During the 1950s and 60s

Gordon Shepherd is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Central Arkansas; Gary Shepherd is Professor Emeritus of Sociology Oakland University Michigan. Both brothers were born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. They attended Salt Lake City public Schools and both obtained undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah. Gordon earned a PhD from the State University of New York at Stonybrook while Gary achieved his PhD from Michigan State University. Over the years Gordon and Gary have collaborated extensively on scholarly projects of mutual interest. They are co-authors of Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church (University of Utah Press), Mormon Passage: A Missionary Chronicle (University of Illinois Press), Talking with the Children of God: Prophecy and Reformation in a Radial Religious Group (University of Illinois Press), Binding Earth and Heaven: Patriarchal Blessings in the Patriarchal Development of Early Mormonism (Penn State University Press), Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait (Greg Kofford Books), and co-editors (with Lavina Fielding Anderson) of Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism (Greg Kofford Books), and (with Ryan Cragun) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism (Palgrave Macmillan).See above joint biography.