And this really here is the crux of the issue. If the book is as good as Dr. Midgley says it is, why not send it to sociology journals for review?Analytics wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:23 pmLet me get this straight. In 2020, an Egyptologist publishes a book about sociology, but BYU thinks it is substandard or otherwise problematic and "pulls it from publication" (whatever that means).
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Meanwhile, Dr. Midgely spends three years writing book reviews about it, despite no expertise in sociology and no basis to judge the strength of the book's arguments, other than counting footnotes.
If the sociologists are too "woke" or "liberal" to give the book a fair hearing (which really shouldn't be the case---a good scholar should be able to say when a book is making a decent argument, even if they ultimately disagree with its conclusions), why not have a few LDS sociologists review it?
If the LDS sociologists want to stay away from it, and the BYU Religious Studies Center (which is, in fact, a very conservative, not-LGBTQ-affirming organization) wants to stay away from it, then it sounds like the book (or at least, parts of it) is the problem.