Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
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Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented […]
[…] at one point (p. 68), they imply a wider meaning of cultural difference as they discuss the worldwide nature of the Church. Dale T. Fletcher has argued for a distinctive artistic expression of Mormonism […]
[…] of that generation of Americans thought that the United States had a moral obligation to set the world right. They threw themselves, therefore, headlong into the turmoil and tragedy of world politics, advocating policies […]
[…] Brigham Young, second president of the Church, often warned women against following the “indecent” fashions of the world, challenging them to separate themselves from women of the world and dress accordingly. Almost thirty years […]
Dialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128
I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies […]
[…] Joseph Smith story becomes as much the reflection of Smith’s perceptions and intentions within an expanding Mormon world-view as the description of a series of historical occurrences. Secondly, Piaget identifies three characteristics of a […]
[…] progressivism in the “New Mormon History,” arguing as it does that God’s word is spreading to the world and that this is a positive development, when there are other appropriate ways to view the […]
[…] of the American West has been overshadowed by its profound effect upon the American nation as a world power. A little-known sidelight to the war is the influence that it exerted upon the Mormons. […]
[…] argued for a Book of Mormon geography that limited its people to small regions in the New World, and open discussion of such matters became more difficult. The efforts of Jakeman, Ferguson, and Franklin […]