Volume 45, No. 3
Fall 2012
The Fall 2012 issue begins with a defense of Andrew Cook's prior assertions about the validity of Joseph Smith's found papyrus and translation of the document. The majority of the rest of the issue is a report of various conferences, addressing the mind of the modern Mormon as addressed at the UVU Mormon Studies Conference, the family politics of conversion as addressed at the Mormon History Association Conference, and a look at the role of gender in the church organizational structure as mentioned in the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research Conference. These articles, and many more, are included in the issue, dealing with a range of topics looking at all aspects of both the Mormon church and it's members.
Contents
Articles/Essays
Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research Conference: To Do the Business of the Church: A Cooperative Paradigm for Examining Gendered Participation within Church Organizational Structure
Neylan McBaineDialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83
I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced degrees in my subject, nor do I consider myself an academic
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Association of Mormon Letters Conference: “For All Things Must Fail”: A Post-Structural Approach to the Book of Mormon
Jacob BenderDialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):138–177
In this paper, I argue that this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well-suited to a reading that employs the techniques of post-structural criticism.
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Letters to the Editor
Response
Formulas and Facts: A Response to John Gee
Andrew Cook
In winter 2010, Chris Smith and I published an article in Dialogue demonstrating that no more than ~56 cm of papyrus can be missing from the interior of the scroll of Hôr—the papyrus Joseph Smith identified as the Book of Abraham. John Gee has responded by claiming that our method...
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