Harold T. Christensen

Sociological Perspectives on Mormon Sexuality: A Postscript

Introduction: Sexuality and Mormon Culture

Stress Points in Mormon Family Culture

There is much that is commendable about the Latter-day Saint family system: its attention to lasting values and eternal life; its embeddedness and centrality within the religious culture; organized efforts to stimulate and strengthen the…

Mormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective

This paper summarizes some of the major findings from an on-going, cross cultural study of premarital sex among college students begun in the late 1930s. Previous publications have developed theoretical propositions of interest to sociologists…

Memoirs of a Marginal Man: Reflections of a Mormon Sociologist

Near the beginning of my professional career at Brigham Young University, a community sage (who had observed a continuing struggle to merge the intellectual with the spiritual at the institution) asked me: “Harold, are you…

The New Zealand Mission During the Great Depression: Reflections of a Former Acting President

The time was 21 April 1932; the place, New Zealand. I had served as a Mormon missionary for nearly two and one-half years, the normal period according to Church practice for a foreign assignment at…