[…] as portrayed. In addition, the passage of time, the progression of knowledge, and the profound cultural shifts over the last two centuries have created significant barriers for people at present to fully empathize with […]
[…] rostrum. For example, the Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward chapel featured portraits of Brigham Young and local authorities over the rostrum, so that ward members could easily see their priesthood leadership (see fig. 1). Framed […]
<i>Dialogue 57:4 (Winter 2024) 33-66 </i><br> Over the past decade, a growing and exciting body of scholarship in Mormon studies has applied critical theory to Mormon history, specifically queer and race critical theory.
<i>Dialogue 40 .1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of […]
[…] law should be altered in a manner to overthrow the free government and to establish a king over the land.” Established just past the midpoint of the Cold War, the FI’s purpose was “to […]
[…] Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so that it is difficult for literary critics to keep up with this growing body of novels, plays, poetry, and literary nonfiction. […]
<i>Dialogue 48 .2 (Summer 2015): 1–57</i><br>Although race and gender are connected in 2 Nephi 26:33, the historical origins of the gender ban have not yet been addressed with the same degree of attention in […]
[…] mailed to members throughout the Church. Congregational leaders were not required to make a correction or apology over the pulpit, and many members continued to feel justified in their belief that dark skin in […]
<i>Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44</i><br>Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
<i>Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 47–83</i><br>This study examines online Mormon feminists’ identities and beliefs and their responses to the Mormon Digital Awakening. This is the first published survey of online Mormon feminists, which gathered quantitative […]