Person

Patrick Q Mason

Historian of Mormonism and peace studies; coauthor of Proclaim Peace on conflict and contention in Latter-day Saint culture.

Why this matters

Mason documents how Latter-day Saints often conflate conflict with contention and practice conflict avoidance.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

Proclaim Peace: The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict

Mason, Patrick Q., and J. David Pulsipher. *Proclaim Peace: The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict*. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2021.

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