The Institute for Religious Research (IRR) is an American Christian apologetics and counter-cult organization based in Cedar Springs, Michigan.
[1] In 2005, over a year prior to the release of a film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, the Baptist Press noted IRR's Ronald V. Huggins and his apologetic analysis of the book.
[2] Peggy Fletcher Stack, religion columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, discussed IRR and its 2002 documentary critique of the Book of Abraham, which Mormons traditionally have believed is a divinely inspired translation by Joseph Smith of a text by the Genesis patriarch Abraham that Smith claimed was contained on an Egyptian papyrus in his possession.
[4] In an article for a journal published by Brigham Young University's Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, John Gee considered IRR's 1992 publication By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri by Charles M. Larson, also regarding the Book of Abraham, to be a "deliberate deception".
[6][7][8] In 2005, IRR criticized Richard Mouw of Fuller Seminary for claiming that evangelicals generally had sinned against Mormons by misrepresenting what they believed.