[…] Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders arguring that no plural marriages were happening, there is evidence to […]
[…] not account for Webster’s context. The final section of the pocket Constitution is an advertisement page that markets other publications from the NCCS. Among those presented are The Five Thousand Year Leap and The […]
Dialogue 31.2 (Summer 1998): 1–68Quinn shares what Mormon Fundamentalists believe. some stereotypes about them, and identfies the different groups.
[…] world encroach on the spiritual sphere, or when the oracles of God feel obliged to intervene in politics, separating church and state becomes a truly troublesome and frustrating task. Where do loyalty and duty […]
[…] a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost upon in great power, while he revealed some of […]
[…] of aversion to controversy—suited him as well for public life. Roberts was also a politician. Not surprisingly, politics and religion in Roberts’ career were closely connected; by force both of circumstances and his own […]
[…] before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and practices that once allowed for a huge range of bonding practices between people of the same-sex. […]
Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six was not a dull year for the 127-year-old Deseret News. Melvin Dummar, a Box Elder County service station operator, was named, along with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
[…] voice of God.” Needless to say, Hooper was “elected.” As long as the Council of Fifty controlled politics, Mormon elections were hardly anything more than a “sustaining” of the official candidates. If, however, on […]
Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an […]