“I have come to feel increasingly marginal to the Mormon community during my adult life, at least in a social and intellectual sense, despite my continuing and conscientious participation in church activity (including leadership) and despite my own deep personal faith in the religion itself.”

Armand L. Mauss, The Angel and the Beehive (Urbana/Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1 April 1994), Preface xii-xiii.