[…] is objective, another biased. The sociology of knowledge becomes the central criterion for evaluating all work. All writing could be judged only against changing perspectives within the community of historians, the community of scientists, […]
[…] seriously and seems unaware of some serious faults – the lack of objectivity in the researching and writing of this book and its great bibliographical lacunae. This is all the more surprising since Hansen […]
[…] leadership. Knowlton observed that “Mormonism requires a commitment of a significant portion of one’s time to Church service and a sufficient education in the culture of management to be able to perform according to […]
[…] that theoretically could have been ambiguous, but these were invariably made clear by context. For example, “the service of the king” could be service rendered either by or to a king, but the full […]
[…] “growing up Mormon.” The weaknesses of the book are relatively minor. The author has a most humorous writing style, and he often gets off some hilarious one-liners. However, he overplays his hand a few […]
[…] integrate art and Mormon theology are about the only ones where one may observe another type of writing being explored. Larson and King, through concrete baroque metaphor, have attempted to create means for realizing […]
[…] him as having primarily non-religious motives. As she later noted: “I was convinced before I ever began writing that Joseph Smith was not a true Prophet” (1975, 10). Writing No Man Knows My History […]
[…] of the church: the work of the ministry requires that we consider audiences outside the LDS experience. Writing to these audiences tests severely any use of “the common metaphors of the Mormon journey”—unless we […]
[…] to some sheets of paper lying on the table. They had been up all night receiving and writing the revelation. And Emma had just got breakfast for them. It was the revelation given in […]
[…] which Joseph Smith always represented as ancient and divinely inspired. Of course, using a first-person narrator in writing fiction does not make one a charlatan. But writing fiction and falsely testifying that the fiction […]