[…] book that should be in the hands of everyone who thinks deeply about Mormonism’s place in the world. Writing for the Cambridge Element series on religion and violence, Patrick Mason has produced a crisp, […]
[…] deserves and, at least tacitly, inviting colleagues to take up the challenge. The problem lies not in breaking the ground but in figuring out what to do with the ground once it has been […]
[…] the church, and if it is worthy to be the rock that will sweep through the world breaking down all other kingdoms before it and bringing man’s will back into line with that of […]
[…] form of authority that can be “held” (or withheld, as the case might be). In the ancient world, priesthood was used to describe either the condition of being a priest or the collective body […]
[…] leaders of such groups chose to subvert American society because control of America meant control of the world’s destiny. Mormon expose literature, read in this context, does much to illustrate the dark, irrational milieu […]
[…] its adherents to think for themselves, and quotes William J. Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World (which he depends on heavily as “the best book on the Mormons”) to the effect that […]
[…] mental, moral, and emotional development. Spirits were free agents, capable of making moral commitments and capable of breaking them. As free agents they had the power to distinguish the good from the bad and […]
[…] the norms of Mormonism are overwhelmingly dominant. Brigham Young University is perhaps the only place in the world where the Church exercises such complete control over the intellectual, social, and spiritual norms of its […]
[…] the best person she can, as she senses her children using her as a model. A man’s world, for the most part, necessitates personal ambition and drive, a need for success, sometimes at the […]
[…] voluntary movement,” groups that “institutionalized the idea that women’s pious influence . . . could reform the world.” Since these women were already mobilized on behalf of the poor, the drunk, the fallen, the […]