Introducing Religion & Politics
May 3, 2012This week marked the ignition of the new online journal <a href=”religionandpolitics.org”>Religion & Politics</a> with some familiar <em>Dialogue</em> faces participating.
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World Without Masks
September 2, 2022[…] combined prophetic calls of Alma, Jacob, John, Benjamin, and Jacob Marley. Let us begin to see the world as it really is, our position as it really is, and, most importantly, to see those […]
I Am a Child of Gods
April 12, 2022[…] “makes reason stare!” This seems to defy all reason to Snow. Single parents existed in Snow’s social world, so the allusion to needing both a mother and a father is likely a biological one. […]
Ceci n’est pas une Mormon Studies Book Peter Coviello, Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
December 10, 2021[…] insists on calling us “the Mormons,” which for me conjures up something from the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair—and more to the substance of the point insists that this book IS NOT A WORK […]
The Words and Worlds of Smith and Brown Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
November 2, 2021[…] Robert Orsi to good effect. His linguistics training also bubbles through. Brown details a rich and vivid world with Smith “manipulating complex conceptual structures” while aware of the danger when scholars impose their views […]
“I Cannot Describe Salt”: Elizabeth Willis, Poets in Exile, and the Church Invisible in the Age of Pandemic
November 2, 2021[…] of their vocation across the centuries (with Percy Shelley’s defiant “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” being perhaps the most notorious). However, plenty of other poets have in turn questioned why they […]
Politicking with the Saints: On Reading Benjamin Park’s Kingdom of Nauvoo Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
April 24, 2021[…] system of governance on the far reaches of the nation. And it is here, in the rough-and-tumble world of early national American politics, that Park’s book truly shines. First introduced as religious émigrés into […]
Queer Mormon Histories and the Politics of a Usable Past
April 24, 2021[…] the pre-exilic Hebrews, the Book of Mormon peoples would have brought it with them to the new world.” Further, he argues that a global turn against same-sex intimacy occurred “during the period the LDS […]
Eugene England's "That They Might Not Suffer: The Gift of Atonement."
April 11, 2020[…] forms of our concepts of him and the inflexible forms of our response to him in the world; unable to let our confidence wax strong in his presence through the feeling that our lives […]
Dialogue Lectures #49 w/ Benjamin Park
March 17, 2020[…] members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is largely unknown to the broader world. Kingdom of Nauvoo is the first attempt since Robert Flanders, over fifty years ago, to try and […]