[…] has a remark able past. Nourished on the spectacular, the faith can count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. […]
[…] and the Torrey Ward (some 6 miles) is entirely completed; the Church to receive $1,000 in capital stock of the Center Irrigation Company. Brother Clawson further reported that he had made some inquiries in […]
[…] made when the History of Joseph Smith, as it was originally called, was serialized in the Deseret News in the late 1850s. Not only does this history place polygamy and Brigham Young’s ecclesiastical significance […]
In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, the […]
[…] Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with several other church members, purchased a cluster of promising mines and claims in Nye County, Nevada. Desperate for funds after a decade-long judicial onslaught by the federal […]
[…] priesthood and Relief Society classes, with the rumbling of stomachs, came last. Outside the chapel, the zone’s market, with food vendors and merchants of many other goods, spread to encompass the white building with […]
[…] broadcasting graduate from Michigan State who had come to Idaho Falls hoping to move to a larger market. She was looking for a story that would get her some attention. She told Tregan she […]
[…] of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Company, 1884), 46. Larson, “King Follett Discourse,” 15. Smith’s successors retreated from this teaching, instead reasoning […]
<i>Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014): 104–123</i><br> An oral interview between an LDS Member and a Community of Christ member regarding the history of the Kirtland Temple. They explain that despite differences in religious beliefs, people […]
[…] lose dependency on “extended family” and depend instead upon the Church and its ostensibly secular counterpart, the market. Therefore, instead of growing their rhizomatic networks of relatedness that are inextricable from their economies (of […]