[…] Presidency. A few months later a “carefully revised” version of his speech was published in the Deseret News, followed by a formal statement from the First Presidency, listing several explicit errors in Orson’s writings. […]
[…] and concern. The scrutiny on all these subjects is likely to continue unabated, probably often as late- breaking news, as the dust begins to settle from the internal social and religious turmoil and from […]
Today there are more than 1,700 daily newspapers in the United States, many of which have circulations of several hundred thousand. Yet once a particular day’s news is superseded by the next, what remains […]
[…] a piece of his own translation to linguists to identify a translation equivalency from the characters to English. By looking for someone to “git them translated,” Joseph opened himself up to an academic translation […]
[…] cycle” or “routinization of charisma.” According to this theory, a religious sect begins with a “charismatic” event—a breaking-in to history of something thrilling but uncontainable, like miraculous divine power or invisible gold plates. But […]
[…] week later, the new President of the Church, Joseph Fielding Smith, assured the world at a formal news conference that his views on church policy and doctrine had “never been altered,” and that no […]
[…] noted that the traditional hemispheric view “is still widely held; within the last few months, the Church News identified the estimated 177 million Indians of North and South America and Polynesians as Lamanites.” Even […]
[…] ban in 1978. Note, however, that with time such changes tend to be explained as less ground- breaking than they were at the moment of their announcement; hence here, as in Catholicism, judicious rhetoric […]
[…] familiarity, normalcy, and something related to and part of “us.” My material consists of more than 100 newspaper and magazine clippings, radio stories, and television news reports from around Finland. The greatest interest in […]
[…] of what was to become one of the hottest political controversies of the year: the Utah Women’s Conference authorized by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year and scheduled for June 24-25