<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” […]
[…] printed in 1997. The atlas had been my first visual clue that the impact of war and politics changes the political realities of the world. Of course, the world will always be configured for […]
[…] religious movements is especially prone to the issues of bias and selective presentation due to researcher position and organizational politics. Like many other religions, Mormonism as an object of study has not escaped this problem.
[…] Welcome” (see n4 herein for full citation). Brady McCombs/Associated Press, “More Women Expected to Serve Mormon Missions,” USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ nation/2013/01/18/mormon-women-missionaries/1844423/ (accessed October 23, 2014). Ibid. David O. McKay, “Our Lady Missionaries,” Young Women’s […]
[…] its social concomitants, “Mormon culture” is almost entirely derivative. What could be more pretentious than to assert that today “Los Angeles and New York are as important subsidiary centers of Mormon culture … as St. […]