Volume 28, No. 4

Mormonism, America’s unique religious manifestation, has a remark able past. Nourished on the spectacular, the faith can count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses.

My text is a poem and a scripture since as I age I find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between beauty and truth. 

Accounting for Fundamentalisms is the fourth volume in a series of studies of religious fundamentalism which began in 1988. The volume re viewed is part of a massive study project sponsored by the American Academy…

Towards the end of Jack Anderson’s first novel, Millennium, syndicated columnist Mick Aaronson announces: “What I am about to tell you is the most important message I have ever written in all my years of…

When one travels to Israel, it soon becomes clear that most of the traditional sites for events in the New Testament represent locations selected by religious sentimentality, not scientific archeology. Too many publications of holy…