[…] Family Patterns,” “The Nineteenth Century Ward,” and “Mormon Sisterhood: Charting the Changes” are social history, replete with human foibles and frailties. Plural marriage receives more attention than in Allen–Leonard or earlier general histories; it […]
[…] subsequent exposure to the gospel, we read of a simple man who speaks the truth about universal human experiences. No attempt is made to shape his experience or the Church to fit idealized preconceptions. […]
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[…] Inc., 1979. Folklore Graham, Joe Stanley. The Dream Mine: A Study in Mormon Folklore. New Haven: Connecticut: Human Relations Area Files, Inc., 1977. Homosexuality Prologue: An Examination of the Mormon Attitude Towards Homosexuality. Salt […]
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[…] me that are in there. One of them, I hope, will be worth something—I mean in a human way, the way that one of Father’s lamb chops gave people something they could sink their […]
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[…] Pratt and his companions arrived in French Polynesia, there were still living many warriors who had tasted human flesh. Although the social systems of the various Polynesian peoples were often complex, the fact remains […]
[…] Certainly Latin America deserves our attention. There are now 600 thousand members in eighteen of the twenty -three independent Latin Ameri can republics and Puerto Rico. Currently the region is experiencing the highest rate […]