Intro to Mormon Fundamentalism (Cristina Rosetti 1 of 5)

We're talking Mormon fundamentalism! Joseph Musser was the first fundamentalist Mormon who wrote down the unique theology (besides polygamy) that they believe. Dr. Cristina Rosetti has written a biography of this man and explains the founding members of the earliest fundamentalist communities. Check out our conversation...



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Retirement from Mormon Studies?

GT  01:21  Welcome to Gospel Tangents. I'm excited to have an amazing historian who I found out yesterday said she was retiring. Go ahead and tell us who you are and where are you retiring from?



Cristina  01:36  My name is Cristina Rosetti and I am an assistant professor at Utah Tech University. Next week is my last week as an assistant professor of humanities.



GT  01:51  Wow. People are going to want to know why.



Cristina  01:54  I have finals week, but then I'm retiring.



GT  01:58  Yeah. Why are you retiring, being such a young person?



Cristina  02:02  I know, I'm retiring at 34. I'm getting married and moving to Canada.



GT  02:07  Wow. Donald Trump was just too much for you, or Joe Biden? Which one?



Cristina  02:11  I mean, last time I was on with you, I think I mentioned that. I had a boyfriend. Well, now I have a fiancé. It's the same person. We got engaged in October and I'm jumping ship, moving to Quebec. There are no Mormons anywhere near where I'm going to be.



GT  02:38  All my Quebec listeners...



Cristina  02:41  Where are you at? Because I've never seen you. I've been to Quebec now, and I've yet to see a Mormon. There were Jehovah's Witness missionaries that came to the rectory once when I was there.



GT  02:53  I'll get your address. We'll send them your way. (Chuckling)



Cristina  02:56  We're fine, thank you. I mean, there's no Mormons, and, yeah, I'm retiring. It's been really interesting to tell people that, to say the least. I mean, I have talked to Jedediah Rogers at the University of Utah Press a bit. We had been in long-standing talks on doing some kind of history of Mormon fundamentalism. Maybe that'll happen. But other than that...



GT  03:35  I'm going to twist your arm to keep you keep you in here. You can still study Mormon history, even as a retired professor.



Cristina  03:42  I can. I can. But will I?



GT  03:47  I know. We'll give you a year off and then you'll just be like, oh, I miss it.



Cristina  03:52  I just have so much gardening to do.



GT  03:54  Okay.



Cristina  03:57  Yeah, it is an interest. I mean, I was an assistant professor only for two years. The job market's rough as everyone who's ever done it knows. I was very lucky. I want to emphasize I was very lucky to get a tenure track position. I don't in any way take that for granted. I wouldn't have left had it not been, like I would have never gone back on the job market. I never would have done that again. But I met a guy who I love dearly, and he's the best person I know. So I'm leaving.



GT  04:31  Well, very good. It's an interfaith marriage. Right? Because you're Catholic and he's an Anglican.



Cristina  04:37  He is Anglican. Yeah, he's a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada,



GT  04:41  You're getting married in the Anglican Church.



Cristina  04:43  We are.