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Joanna Brooks

    Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and politics and an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture. Her writing offers deep insights into the complex interplay of faith, identity, and social change within American society. Brooks is a veteran of the Mormon feminist and LGBT equality movements, bringing a unique perspective to her work. Her scholarship explores the nuanced landscape of religious belief and its intersection with contemporary social and political discourse.

    Women, Politics and the Public Sphere
    Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
    Overcoming Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Concussion Symptoms
    Interviews in Qualitative Research
    Template Analysis for Business and Management Students
    Mormonism and White Supremacy
    • 2024
    • 2023

      New addition to the Introduction to Coping series of short primers on health conditions where CBT can benefit you. This covers advice on the science behind different types of acquired brain injuries and CBT techniques that can help with your gradual recovery.

      An Introduction to Coping with Brain Injury
    • 2020

      Mormonism and White Supremacy

      American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.3(386)Add rating

      The book provides a critical examination of American Christianity's complicity in perpetuating white supremacy, particularly within the context of Mormonism. Joanna Brooks reflects on her own cultural history, revealing how the assurance of innocence among white individuals has contributed to systemic racism. This exploration offers valuable insights for scholars of American religion and individuals of faith, prompting a necessary dialogue about the intersection of race and religion in contemporary society.

      Mormonism and White Supremacy
    • 2019

      Women, Politics and the Public Sphere

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Women, Politics and the Public Sphere focuses intellectually on the legacy of eighteenth century women thinkers, writers and political philosophers in understanding the emergence of women public intellectuals in the US and UK and highlights how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity.

      Women, Politics and the Public Sphere
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2013

      The book explores the grim truths of working-class English emigration during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, challenging the notion that these immigrants sought a land of opportunity in America. By tracing American folk ballads back to their origins, it uncovers the cultural perspectives of early immigrants and provides a poignant historical insight into the lives of their ancestors, revealing a more complex narrative than commonly understood.

      Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
    • 2010

      Interviews in Qualitative Research

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(29)Add rating

      A must-have text for students and researchers planning to use interview methods for themselves. It is aimed at a broad range of disciplines with examples drawn from across the social, educational and health sciences.

      Interviews in Qualitative Research