The Adam-God Doctrine
April 19, 2018[…] a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost upon in great power, while he revealed some of […]
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One Nation Under Whose God? How Religion Was Excluded from the U.S. Political System
April 2, 2018[…] moral claims and its attempt to control people’s behavior, there are constant conflicts with religion in the market place, with religion in the educational system, and with religion in science. These contact/conflict points are […]
In Taiwan but Not of Taiwan: Challenges of the LDS Church in the Wake of the Indigenous Movement
March 20, 2018[…] about Warren Jeffs, Tom Green, and the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart comprised twelve of the total twenty-five. Headlines such as “American Top Ten Most Wanted: 80 Wives 250 Children, Polygamous Head Arrested,” “Self-Proclaimed President […]
The Politics of B.H. Roberts
April 27, 2018[…] of aversion to controversy—suited him as well for public life. Roberts was also a politician. Not surprisingly, politics and religion in Roberts’ career were closely connected; by force both of circumstances and his own […]
Male-Male Intimacy among Nineteenth-century Mormons: A Case Study
April 6, 2018[…] before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and practices that once allowed for a huge range of bonding practices between people of the same-sex. […]
Nostrums in the Newsroom
April 26, 2018Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six was not a dull year for the 127-year-old Deseret News. Melvin Dummar, a Box Elder County service station operator, was named, along with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
LDS “Headquarters Culture” and the Rest of Mormonism: Past and Present
March 28, 2018[…] a revelation which established the doctrine of “gathering” the new church’s members at a headquarters area: ” And again, a commandment I give unto the church, that it is expedient in me that they […]
The Metamorphosis of the Kingdom of God: Toward a Reinterpretation of Mormon History
May 4, 2018[…] voice of God.” Needless to say, Hooper was “elected.” As long as the Council of Fifty controlled politics, Mormon elections were hardly anything more than a “sustaining” of the official candidates. If, however, on […]
Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
April 26, 2018<i>Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46</i><br>The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an […]
Mormon Europeans or European Mormons? An “Afro-European” View on Religious Colonization
March 22, 2018Mormon history is part of the colonization history of the American West; and the LDS Church, as a major player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days […]