[…] a Commandment in 1851?” DIALOGUE 14 (Fall 1981) : 66-77. See Joseph R. Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement (Urbana, 111.: University of Illinois Press, 1963) ; Joseph H. Timberlake, […]
[…] been penned and published. In many cases, controversies about LDS historical topics have spilled over into the national press. In the last generation, for example, disputes about the accuracy of Fawn Brodie’s No Man […]
[…] end of the nineteenth century as well as the disruptions caused by the First World War, the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression distracted Church authorities from a social concern that remained largely […]
[…] the familiness of these households, even while they are increasing.” Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (New York: Free Press, 1999). Theodore B. Olson, “The Conservative […]
[…] the Pacific Railroad. Eastern and Midwestern enterprisers and laborers would flock in to exploit new mines and markets, thus threatening the continuance of theocratic control of the region. Increased commercial intercourse would threaten the […]
[…] refers, as a means of determining which group to join. William also introduces the name of Reverend Stockton, the Presbyterian pastor, as presiding at the meetings. This information, since William does not give it […]
[…] examination of an issue that plagued the 4th century and which happens to have parallels with the politics of our own time, and, in addition, as (2) a subtle effort at reading a sermon […]
[…] organized homosexuals.” He further asserted that the Cleavers were “destined to revolutionize men’s fashion and corner world market” while freeing men from what he called “the fig leaf mentality.” His pants, he asserted,” would […]
[…] the federal legal and political system. On the other hand, Mormon religion was not without influence in politics. The political order of territorial Utah, for example, was controlled by a ruling class that was […]
[…] past century; they were referred to in conference sermons and in statements and retractions in the Deseret News and Millennial Star. In retracing the fascinating course of theological differences Gary James Bergera reminds us […]