<i>Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128</i><br>JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, […]
[…] judge your Church according to its number of members here but rather by its influence in the USA and increasingly in the world.” The GDR wanted to improve its public image in the West, […]
[…] increase the frequency with which non-European faces and experiences are depicted in Church magazines, lesson manuals, and videos, continuing an already noticeable trend. Another important form of the Church’s reach into the grassroots takes […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83</i><br>I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]
[…] remained politically neutral. Matthew Harris’s edited collection Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics places Benson within his historical context and analyzes the influence that he had on the LDS […]
[…] practice, rooted in the belief in a divine curse on Black people, contradicts the principles of equality and brotherhood that the Church should embody. He concludes asserting that the time has come for the […]
[…] Saints’ Herald 26, Oct. 1, 1879, 289–90. James H. Hart, “About the Book of Mormon,” Deseret Evening News, Mar. 25, 1884. Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City: Signature […]
[…] from the ward joined with her. It is not obvious that plural marriage or Church domination of politics would have died out if they were merely left alone any more than that these people […]
[…] something about each work as a whole. Olmstead’s aim is “to achieve a fairly balanced treatment of American religion” by steering a middle course between a sociological and a theological emphasis. His technique is […]
[…] answer responsively questions about business affairs” (p. 283); and “the Church does not participate very much in politics” (p. 279). Readers will also be surprised to learn that a temple has recently been completed […]