[…] nearly all anthologists, of course. Second, some suggestions on content. The editors note that we are “a world church” (p. 5), yet their selections implicitly define Mormon literature as a sub species of American […]
[…] in the immediate context, either before or after the misread word. For example, saying word instead of world (Jacob 4:9); commandments instead of judgments (Mosiah 6:6); words instead of plates (Jarom 15); voice instead […]
[…] man’s unconscious, dissected the strange beliefs of tribal societies and examined the religious survivors of a secularized world in search of naturalistic explanations of religious phenomena with the result that the validity of religious […]
[…] these themes. The book also offers well-informed assessments of the practical difficulties facing the Church in its world-wide mission. Essays by David M. Kennedy and Soren F. Cox detail this challenge from their respective […]
[…] extensively injurious. Such delusions many have hoped and believed, belonged only to the dark ages of the world, or spread only among the illiterate and ignorant. But such is not exactly correct, for many […]
[…] Utah and the western United States as core focus, with the periphery consisting of the rest of the world. The exception would be well-organized and smoothly functioning church units in certain urban areas elsewhere in […]
[…] Mormon community, the Mormon society, back into the brotherhood. But he couldn’t. I told him the university world was my world and not the church. He finally accepted it, but with a lot of […]
[…] is essentially Freudian in orientation, modified by his strong commitment to ideological feminism and his work in American studies. Although Kern does make some effort to learn from these groups, he is primarily interested […]
[…] into private practice and remained active in diplomacy by serving on the American-British Pecuniary Claims Commission. During World War I, he worked in the Army’s provost marshall general headquarters and in the office of […]
[…] Think how depressing it would be to think that your marriage was the only one in the world that had challenges—and lots of people do add guilt to their difficulties by thinking that way.” […]