[…] of both groups to establish congregations in Canada’s far west and explores why the growth of the Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Latter Day Saint churches in British Columbia became so lopsided after World War II.
[…] larger struggle for identity, baptism for the dead merely being the case study. In the years following World War II, as the Reorganization moved increasingly toward ecumenical Christianity, it became obvious that something had […]
[…] Frost, and Helen Keller across their stage. College Hall overflowed as “students from the boondocks” absorbed the world’s classic dramas and appraised sophisticated debates on cur rent topics. “I began to feel the world […]
[…] ice cream cones with jimmies—chocolate shot. Meg’s job search is interrupted before it begins; the Institute of World Affairs offers her a scholarship for a program in Connecticut. She’ll return to Boston in time […]
[…] conservative batter that seems to have brewed in U.S. domestic and foreign politics since the end of World War II. What can be said by Mormons who live in a country which is part […]
Even with the explosion of scholarly interest in Mormonism over the past fifteen years, students of American religion still wait for a systematic and synthetic treatment of the development of Mormon theology. Central to […]
[…] stories, ceremonies, and prayers. His purpose is to preserve elements of and inform people about this Dine world view. Since there is already an extensive literature on Navajo culture and cosmology, McPherson has selected, […]
African- American Mormons until recently have received little attention, at least partly because of the limited bibliographical listings that coordinate the sources available for historical or scholarly research papers on their history. This bibliography, […]
[…] Long Road Back” and “Part VI: The Fearful Passage” = The Fall and the Lone and Dreary World “Part VII: Culmination and Conclusion” (including “Ritual Embraces”; “the temple veils”; and “‘Seeing the god’, the […]
[…] traditions were well catalogued by D. Michael Quinn in his pioneering study, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature Books, 1988). In this present work, Brooke augments and amplifies material introduced by Quinn […]