[…] areas where most missionaries could enjoy such civilized luxuries as paved roads, frequent public transportation, telephone lines, and running water. In recent years missions branched into smaller cities, but the Russian village was an […]
[…] Colorado. This thesis was stretched into a Ph.D. dissertation, also at Colorado, on “The Mor mons in Politics: The First Hundred Years” (1965) and launched her on a lifetime career in Mormon studies—as a […]
[…] absorbing the economic progress we make so that none of it reaches the average person in the market place, the consumer. One of the things that built the American economy was adopting principles that […]
[…] family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among Spanish-speaking members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) to signify solidarity and integration with one another.
[…] not weather the combined shocks of a vastly changed industry and the economic conditions created by the stock market crash. The Pioneer Film Corporation went into receivership and never made another film. All Faces […]
[…] Protestants is greater than the combined total of members of all other kinds of voluntary organizations in politics, culture, and sports. In this panorama of change the most important groups are those originating in […]
[…] especially by gay activists, which prompt ed this decision, see Ronald Bayer, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (New York: Basic Books, 1981). David F. Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality (Chicago: University […]
[…] raised to the national and international level. The character of this political activity I have called “utopian politics” or “apocalyptic politics.” The coining of such strange terms requires an explanation, for Utopian or apocalyptic […]
[…] cases it’s because the chief executive officer inherited the business. Such executives claim a salary, bonus, and stock options as part of the divine rights of kings and managers. Many live exceedingly comfortable, if […]
[…] to their tenuous accumulation. An overriding concern to many on the Right are alterations in a free market that otherwise allows them to translate their skills and hard work to affluence. The usual source […]