Stacy Burton

STACY BURTON, a graduate of Brigham Young University and Cornell University, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. An earlier version of "Rethinking Religious Experience: Notes from Critical Theory, Feminism, and Real Life" was first presented at the 1993 Sunstone Symposium

Rethinking Religious Experience: Notes from Critical Theory, Feminism, and Real Life

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 4

The Idea of a University | Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell, Matters of Conscience: Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion, and Bryan Waterman and Brian Kagel, The Lord’s University: Freedom and Authority at BYU

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3

Each of these books provides a thoughtful, intimate account of the uneasy co-existence of scholarly life and Mormon orthodoxies. Read together, the long journey of a prominent heretic and the recent conflicts over academic freedom…

The Province of the Extreme | Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

Krakauer’s success has come as a writer of narrative nonfiction. He is best known for Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (New York: Villard,1997). In Under the Banner of Heaven:…