Biography
Michael Hubbard MacKay is the Moral Education Professor developing interfaith education at faith-based universities, colleges, and seminaries. He is a fellow of BYU's Council for Interfaith Engagement and the faculty mentor for the Interfaith Student Association. He teaches World Religions, Christianity, Interfaith Leadership and Ethics, Doctrine and Covenants, Foundations of the Restoration, and History of Joseph Smith.
He is a historian/writer for the Joseph Smith Papers Project and currently working on the Legal Series.
Selected Publications:
Designing for Relational Ethics in Online and Blended Learning: Levinas, Buber, and Teaching Interfaith Ethics
Teaching Religion in an Object Oriented Ontology
Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities
Alleviating Poverty through Service and Scholarship
Materializing Religion, Heidegger, and the Stability of Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones as Religious Objects
Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality
Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020).
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects and the Rise of Mormon Christianity
The Rise of the Latter-Day Saints: Newel Knight's History and Journal
Business and Religion: The Intersection of Faith and Finance
Joseph Smith's Seer Stones
Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism
From Darkness Unto Light: Joseph Smith's Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith Papers Project, Documents Volume One
Research Interests
Religious Studies, Interfaith, Philosophy of Education, Early Mormonism, theology, religious studies, and the history of science and medicine.Teaching Interests
World Religions, Religious Studies, Doctrine and Covenants, Church HistoryHonors and Awards
- Young Scholars Award, World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine (2009 - 2012)
- Young Scholars Award, World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine (2009 - 2012)
Professional Citizenship
- Committee/Council Chair, Laura F. Willis Institute for the Study of the Book of Mormon (2014 - 2014)
- Editor, Associate Editor, Laura F. Willis Institute for the Study of the Book of Mormon (2014 - 2014)