[…] group (their mean score was 2.0 on the five-point scale), followed by the non-LDS French (2.9), the American Mormons (3.44), and the American non-Mormons, who agreed the least (3.76). The response to this question […]
[…] Catholic and Protestant). In short, the Mormons were working on improving their unique assets in the religious market. The late 1950s saw a violent repression of left-wing political sectors and of open conflicts within […]
[…] if it made peace with the nation, which meant giving up such trademarks of nineteenth-century Mormonism as theocratic politics, communitarian economics, and certain theologically rooted social and cultural practices (plural marriage in particular). One of […]
[…] Protestantism in Latin America (Oxford, Eng.: B. Blackwell, 1990); David Stoll, Is Latin America Turning Protestant! The Politics of Evangelical Growth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); Brian H. Smith, Religious Politics in Latin […]
[…] record that actually show up in church on a regular basis. Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study: USA (Washington, D.C.: Pew, 2014). Amorette Hinderaker and Amy O’Connor, “The Long Road Out: Exit Stories from […]
Sterling M. McMurrin has been a leading philosopher and educator for many years. Among his publications pertaining to the philosophy of religion are Religion, Reason, and Truth (1982) and The Theological Foundations of the […]
[…] reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
[…] and then a common religiousness. In a very powerful sense, every religious community in the United States today is natively American. From the fourth century onwards, religion in Europe followed the principle cuius regio […]
[…] consists of two proposals: a “judicious tariff” and the creation of a national bank with the capital stock owned by the federal government. This bank would have branches in the several states, and the […]
[…] weakened through our absorption into secular, pluralistic societies undergoing momentous change, perhaps it is time to take stock of our position. Do our present patterns of social and economic life in affluent America enable […]