[…] concluded that the principle of plural marriage must have been revealed to Joseph Smith in 1831 (Deseret News, May 20,1886). In the December 8,1831, Ohio Star, Ezra Booth wrote of a Mormon revelation to […]
[…] small presses survive long enough to make it into his directory. Each annual edition of the Poet’s Market, another direc tory of publications which feature poetry, can be several hundred pages thick. The field […]
The history of empires and nation-states is often a chronicle of wars, as this sprinkling of names clearly evokes: Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, William T. Sherman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, […]
[…] such discontent partly because the Roman Catholic Church in Utah tends to be ultraconservative in theology and politics. While Catholic leadership worldwide, including Pope John Paul II, vehemently opposed the war, many of my […]
[…] Press, 2002); Douglas Davies, An Introduction to Mormonism (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Kathleen Flake, The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (Chapel Hill: University of […]
[…] the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through the […]
[…] an ideal time to edit an independent Mormon periodical like Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Linda and Jack Newell of Salt Lake City were about to finish their five-year tenure as editors, and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]