[…] necessary condition for ultimate salvation (exaltation), and a preoccupation with procreation define as threatening any form of human sexuality that does not entail marriage and fertility. Thus, contemporary trends encouraging childless families, easier divorce, […]
[…] “two closely related meanings” for his neologism: It is, first of all, a way of thinking about human events that focuses on the ordinary, messy, quotidian facts of daily life—in short, on the prosaic. […]
[…] of modern cultural studies derived from classical anthropology. Basic to this perspective is the concept that the human body itself can be understood partly as an outcome of culture. The body (including the mind […]
[…] for more inquiry. But reason, like childcare, reverence, music, service, or gardening is only one of many human goods. I sustain a prophet as someone who can say something that is difficult and upsetting […]
[…] intercourse may be the way we procreate in mortality but not in other realms. If we extend human logic to the celestial kingdom, factoring in a gestation period of nine months, it would take […]
Dialogue 46.2 (Spring 2016): 1–39
Blythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.
[…] general, including nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints, is seen in Brigham Young’s statement, “You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived […]
[…] Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben have argued that really meaningful art, art that speaks most profoundly to our human experience, always carries within it a kind of resistance. There are a lot of ways this […]
[…] Hinckley’s responses, which seemed to be questioning the validity of these ideas, to be “refreshingly honest and human.” However, I believe his equivocating to be just an extension of Mormon leaders’ efforts since the […]
[…] judges and generals. The women from the scriptures and Church history were dynamo, but they were still human. Why not introduce girls to their ultimate female role model, Heavenly Mother? I have a master’s […]