Volume 16, No. 4

Twenty-three years ago on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have asked…

Missiology is the scholary study of missions. In an attempt to explain religious interactions, missiology uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields such as theology, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, communications, and statistics. Missiology, of necessity,…

No branch of study, academic or popular, penetrates as deeply into man’s intuitive life or mirrors his contemplative self as clearly as folklore. Folklore lays bare man’s myriad fears and anxieties, while at the same…

Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 74 – 90
This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) and to suggest how and where more of these antiquities might be found.

A title like that might indicate that I’m already half through. But it needed to be long to convey something of a lurid past that calls for “confessions.” “More perfect order within” suggests both the…

Edgar to Gloucester in King Lear:                         Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither.  June 1982  I grew up in a safe valley. The years five through twelve, when we are most sensuously…

A year ago in writing of the prospects for future graduate study on Mor monism it seemed appropriate to prophesy a gradual deterioration. It is therefore exceedingly heartening to note that while the actual number…

Sometimes I wonder why it is that our Mormon society, particularly those of us living in Utah, are so eager to become rich and successful (that is, if wealth really brings success). As a financial…

When i saw this book for the first time I ignored it as I have done with all of the other books by the popular nonfiction Swiss author and world traveler, Erich von Daniken. He…

The explosion of books and articles on the Mormons over the past ten years is nothing short of phenomenal. Two books, James Allen and Glen Leonard’s Story of the Latter-day Saints and Leonard Arrington and…

Published first in 1966, Harold Schindler’s biography of Porter Rockwell has been widely read and has received well-deserved acclaim for its evidence of careful research, its objectivity, its literary merit, and its re markable illustrations. Now,…

After reading The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914, you will understand why Mormons once had horns. The vestigial appendages were a remnant of cartoonists’ repeated use of the symbol to associate polygamy with satyr-like lust. The…

There is a distinct advantage in being a New Yorker when tracking one down in your own backyard. Richard Palmer’s second great-grandfather, Noah Palmer, came to Palmyra in 1810 and owned land adjacent to the…