Two decades before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints began official missionary work in West Africa pamphlets books and other church materials had been circulating among Christians in Nigeria and Ghana. Brought by seekers who had studied abroad or encountered church members from other countries those texts formed the basis for a Mormon community outside the bounds of U.S. institutional authority or oversight. What did this international Mormonism look like and how did believers craft churches out of the bare materials of tracts and inspirational volumes Laurie F. MafflyKipp explores the circulation and interpretation of this homegrown Mormon faith in the 1960s and 1970s and concludes with the dilemmas raised by the religious selffashioning of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints establishment after 1978. amp160 The Arrington Lecture series established by one of the twentiethcentury Westamp39s most distinguished historians Leonard Arrington has become a leading forum for prominent historians to address topics related to Mormon history. Utah State University hosts the Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series through the MerrillCazier Library Special Collections and Archives department. amp160