[…] faces and rips them to pieces. But it does more than rip—it takes pieces of an older world view and arranges them in new patterns, as a mosaic. Many of the pieces of this […]
[…] was a mere concession to deflect the backlash received after Proposition 8. In a city, country, and world of contending faiths and cultures, the Church is indeed sensitive to its reception at local, national […]
[…] also encountered pushback from some of his fellow apostles in the Quorum of the Twelve. The post– World War II years exposing racial injustices with the brutal murder of Emmett Till, the arrest of […]
[…] part of the problem is tackling implicit and explicit forms of ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism by reimagining a world that affirms the difference of the Other. Since the middle of the twentieth century, there has […]
[…] with relief. His disclaimer read, in part, “I do most earnestly hope that the Saints throughout the world will reject every unsound doctrine which they may discover in the ‘Seer’ or in any of […]
[…] poles of definition. The noble savage is one of many European ideas that attempts to comprehend New World discoveries. The new land seemed virginal, unencumbered by historical burdens and social demands, and offering, in […]
[…] proportions of Buddhism in Asia, simply because Shinto is too closely bound to Japanese self-definition, while the world religion of Buddhism continues to expand not only on the Pacific Rim but also in North […]
In a 1991 New York Times Book Review article, African- American literary theorist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., used the bizarre case of The Education of Little Tree to reexamine the issues […]
[…] There has been no widespread return to a unitary theory of the Pentateuch in biblical studies, thus, breaking the long pattern of parallelism with the classicists. The long, parallel development between the two fields […]
[…] most fundamental kind of reality as opposed to the “shadows” that humankind dealt with in the temporal world. Plato implied that the soul existed before entering the body and that, if it properly purified […]