[…] 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 […]
[…] a dream, but when I stepped out of the tent I found that the rest of the world had ceased to exist and that our camp was floating in a sea of nothing. In […]
[…] identify, describe, and analyze the relationship between the “organizational characteristics of fundamentalist movements … and their changing world views, ideologies, and programs” (3). Three earlier volumes in the series set out to describe and […]
[…] McKay was assigned to undertake a one-year tour of various Latter-day Saint missions and schools throughout the world. In 1922 he assumed even more responsibilities when he was appointed president of the European Mission. […]
[…] with others, incarcerated there for having violated the U.S. law against plural marriage (called polygamy in the world). As the brethren came into the prison, I organized them into classes of bookkeeping. The course […]
[…] dangerous enough to rescue any body from. I was a boy just before and during the Second World War, and I grew up in Provo, Utah, a small pioneer Mormon town. I longed for […]
[…] deranged immigrant had walked into the Family Research Center in Salt Lake City and started shooting. The world had turned suddenly sinister. We were just finishing our course of study, the Doctrine & Covenants, […]
[…] rising reluctantly to correct the meanderings of one brother who held a distinctly apocalyptic view of the world and the immediacy of Christ’s second coming. The proverbial sister who would regularly rise to tell […]
[…] up. On our way back to town, Melba asked, “So what’s Reuben up to these days? The world still against him?” When I told her what he’d said about the churchhouse, she told me, […]
[…] been reiterated in such works as Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1958, p. 106 and in John L. Lund, The Church and the Negro, 1967, pp. […]