[…] J. Bracken Lee announced his retirement from public office. He said he was “sick and tired of politics and sick and tired of politicians.” Such a statement seems out of character when you read […]
[…] 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. […]
[…] unfortunately, appeared in mainstream historical publications. In part that was because there was such a thriving internal market for Mormon history. In Mormonism, history merges into theology. Joseph Smith’s story, narratives about the gathering […]
[…] rural sociology and found several additional references to the Mormons. I hunted through monographs concerning American history, politics, and economics and discovered to my surprise and delight that a whole literature on the “secular” […]
[…] A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, “Conspiracism is, first and foremost, an explanation of politics. It purports to locate and identify the true loci of power and thereby illuminate previously hidden […]
[…] adopting a Reciprocal Partnership statute instead of marriage. See generally “Chronology of Mormon/LOS Involvement in Same-Sex Marriage Politics” (accessed July 3, 2009). This may be expected, because the proclamation is presented as a revelation […]
[…] remained in Salt Lake only a week or two longer. On 1 September, after incorporating a capital stock company with Wutherich and a local theater promoter named Max Florence to dispose of the pictures, […]
[…] 56.1 (Spring 2023): 27–55
Enjoy an interview about this piece here.
Desiring to better underst and how people are navigating these complex identity negotiations, I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming Mormons […]
[…] see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I will look at eight new differences that have emerged over the past forty years […]
[…] Melchizedek Priesthood or is “within” it. But actually there is extensive overlapping of offices and categories even today. Fawn M. Brodie has suggested that the concept of the dual priesthood came directly from two […]