Armand Lind Mauss (June 5, 1928 – August 1, 2020) was an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of religion.

A special conference on his work in Mormon studies was held in 2013 at California's Claremont Graduate University (CGU), the papers from which were subsequently published by the University of Utah Press in the format of a Festschrift, where he was honored as "one of the most prominent Mormon intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

"[1][2] Mauss was born on 5 June 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up in California, graduating from Oakland High School in 1946.

[2][3] In 1949, he accompanied his family to Japan where his father was called to preside over the missionary work of the LDS Church in east Asia.

degree in history, with an emphasis on Asia, and in 1970, he earned a Ph.D. in Sociology, with a dissertation titled Mormonism and Minorities, both at the University of California, Berkeley.