[…] an ideal group to make this point, since they are so small and do not actively proselytize today. They thus pose no direct institutional challenge to the Latter-day Saints, and hopefully they may be […]
[…] the public domain, that publication opened up the possibility of serious home study. A small but significant market began to develop among Mormons who wanted to be able to explore their own past, even […]
[…] possessed a very short memory. If the carpetbagger issue was empty, what issues did dominate Idaho territorial politics? I would have been more comfortable with the book if Limbaugh had explicitly identified these issues […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] fortunately, much of this analysis appears to have been developed during 1982-84 but disregards the subsequent bull market in securities during 1985-86. The estimated assets of $8 billion may seriously under state the value […]
Listen to Claremont Chair of Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in […]
[…] of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and co-author of the recent book Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics. Campbell’s lecture, titled “Whither the Promised Land? Mormons’ Place […]
[…] accidental. The thesis of the book actually seems to be that Mormonism’s overwhelmingly white congregations and white politics is a result of a habit of choosing white comfort and power over Black humanity and […]
[…] by loveless, emotionless sexual encounters, at least for those lucky few who find themselves winners in the market for such distractions—for in the Houellebecqian universe, everything is commodified through a type of market capitalism […]
[…] troubled by the aggressive and insensitive treatment of these families.” We have seen the pictures on the news of refugees who drowned trying to cross a river or an ocean, of decaying bodies in […]