[…] 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 […]
<i>Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40</i><br>In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] Chicago. Seventeen years after the company was founded, it merged, and 7 million dollars worth of McKesson-Robbins stock was turned over to Mr. Skaggs. While president of Skaggs-Stone, Brother Stone also served as President […]
[…] consider able sophistication in their treatment of the transformation of the doctrine of the gathering, showing why, today, it “could be accomplished anywhere in the world.” But they have failed to see the full […]
[…] origin of the Book of Mormon. Following her trenchant attack on the theory its popularity quickly declined. Today nobody gives it credence. It was Brodie who insisted that Joseph Smith, not Sidney Rigdon, was […]
[…] level floor was laid to permit dancing. A cabinet organ which promised to “supersede everything in the market” was imported from the East. “For convenience of arrangement, beauty of interior finish, and acoustic properties,” […]
[…] physically” were polygamists,” and thus , by their becoming fathers to the largest number of children, the stock is improved.” History of Utah (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1964), p. 384. J.E. Hickman, “The Offspring […]
[…] it will be hard, in the words of Tullis, to convince converts that “middle class American culture, politics, economics, and language are the Lord’s ideal way.” Increasingly, too, the Church will be forced to […]