Non-Catholic religious groups have been increasing at a rapid rate in Latin America since World War II. For example, during the five-year period, 1952-57, the number of Protestants expanded from 2,866,000 to 4,534,000—a fifty-eight […]
[…] unable to care for themselves has rested with government. English settlers brought the tradition to the New World and Americans carried it westward as the nation expanded. Private and religious charitable associations supplemented governmental […]
[…] issue of Dialogue emphasizes the relationship between Mormonism and American culture. John Sorenson’s lead article on “Mormon World View and American Culture” sets the stage by attempting to make a distinction between the gospel […]
[…] most popular and exciting speakers, a missionary, theologian, journalist, and widely admired champion of Mormonism before the world; and Roberts’ day was a long one—for nearly forty-five years he served as a general authority […]
[…] put the titles of part 3 and chapter 32 into “Mor monism Which Spreads into All the World” and “Transforming into a World-wide Church” from their original “The Twentieth Century” and “Salt Lake City […]
[…] A million rolls of microfilm stored in Granite Mountain vaults pre serve and centralize much of the world’s genealogical information. Computers minimize work for membership and financial clerks while providing better reports for bishops. […]
[…] silence, whispers flowing secretly from tree to tree. Children’s voices. They grew louder, rising to a glass- breaking pitch. He had heard that sound before also, walking down the corridor at church: Whenever I […]
[…] of sound and silence. My observations here deal with the outer, open dimension of the LDS sound world, including theories about de-Protestantisation and feminisation. Also examined herein will be the institutional process of “reduce […]
Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference […]
[…] Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo ritual system. On the other hand, this meant defining themselves against the Brighamites by breaking their silence on plural marriage. In addition to their own internal anxieties over plural marriage, which […]