Christopher Blythe – A Folklorist’s Approach to Book of Mormon Geography
Christopher James Blythe is a research associate at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Mormon History, the co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah, and the author of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse. Blythe holds a PhD in American Religious History from Florida State University. He is currently working on a book about how and why Latter-day Saints throughout Church history have located the events of the Book of Mormon. He is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He lives in Springville, Utah, with his wife and three boys.
christopherjblythe.com Author, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse