[…] Vision has taken priority in structuring Mormon identity, despite the existence of different versions. This article explores why that version is so meaningful to Latter -day Saints, reflecting on the symbolic strucutre of the account.
[…] the admirable Temple, would be wiped out. The rejection of the Mormons from Missouri would be in humanly consummated; in a few short months, Far West would fall from grandeur to misery; Carthage jail […]
[…] fully achieved. The edition cited here is William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: New American Library, 1958). I am grateful to Syracuse University Press for permission […]
Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 58–67 I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph Smith […]
[…] 9.4 (Winter 1974): 21–34
Foster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first -known defense of polygamy before 1852.
[…] open and intense conflict with the state. The German Catholics, fearing a decline in faith because of humanism, cultural relativity and Marxism, wished to reverse the process of secularization among the faithful (which had […]
[…] than a month after the Manifesto. After acknowledging Foster’s previous letter, which had expressed concern for the humane treatment of those still imprisoned for unlawful cohabitation, Woodruff stated that his people would gladly avail […]
[…] larger issues of the dilemma confronting all who profess religion and reason while coping with their own humanity. “If any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her […]
[…] an anonymous interview acknowledged the difficult times. “Sure we became angry and jealous. We are after all human beings. But when I felt most hateful I went into my room and closed the door.” […]
[…] be the mother of us all, was a plural mate. A recent study of the evolution of human sexuality concludes, however, that while modern man is often culturally obliged to be monogamous, he may […]