| Lavina Fielding Anderson She is a Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist. Anderson is also one of the September 6. View Works by this Person |
| Also Known As | Lavina Fielding |
| Religion | Excommunicated LDS |
| Birth Date | 1944 |
| Spouse | Paul L. Anderson |
| Children | Christian |
| Education | Anderson holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. |
| Career | Anderson is past president of the Association for Mormon Letters (1981), former associate editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, president of Editing, Inc., and editor of the Journal of Mormon History. |
| Awards | Honorary Lifetime Membership Award, The Association for Mormon Letters, 2002 |
| Other Biographical Information | Anderson is one of the original trustees of the Mormon Alliance, founded in 1992 to document allegations of spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse in the LDS Church. In 1993, Anderson published a chronology documenting cases of what she regarded as spiritual abuse by LDS church leaders during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. This article became grounds[1] for her excommunication on charges of apostasy in September 1993, as one of the September Six. Anderson remains as active in the LDS Church as her excommunicant status allows; she has been described by Levi S. Peterson (1996) as exemplary of an emerging "church in exile" composed of faithful excommunicants. |
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