[…] Soviet Union has progressed beyond the point where any increase in such weaponry necessarily results in increased national security. It has become, in fact, the ultimate act of idolatry, a reliance upon technology, a […]
[…] Crosses in Zion examines a previously unexamined aspect of social history providing insight into the culture and politics of Utah during a crucial time. Moreover, it places that history within the larger context of […]
[…] did they have long-established ethnic newspapers and institutions like coffee houses and fraternal organizations to disseminate government news, help them with citizenship papers and legal problems, and provide support while they took the rudimentary […]
Brigham Young: American Moses makes several important contributions. First, it relies on and quotes extensively from primary sources. Readers will glean a number of new insights. Particularly helpful is Arrington’s chapter on Brigham’s youthful […]
<i>Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60</i><br> Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
[…] process. Sincere and successfully waged dissent has long been an illegitimate facet in Mormon life but appears today to be thriving as never before. It is not surprising, however, that few have tried to […]
[…] polarizing impact on the church than land rights militancy. In both Mormon church policy and the national politics of early twentieth-century assimilationist New Zealand, the Maori language had been effectively viewed as a cultural […]
[…] an entirely different flavor to the passage. Moreover, some of his tangents would be considered rather offensive today. It is difficult to imagine the sensitive 1990s pastor telling the women in his or her […]
[…] the world, combining them to enrich the meaning of both. In my final example of cosmos and politics, I refer to the prophet Jeremiah, who wrote at a time in which he foresaw the […]
[…] menace to freedmen everywhere and had to be eliminated” (178). As Remini perceptively notes, “Mixing religion and politics can have disastrous consequences and release forces that tarnish the most cherished ideals of American Justice” […]