[…] according to the Rankean ideal of telling it “as it really was.” The process of researching, selecting, and emplotting historical evidence within a narrative structure is often idiosyncratic, and may be employed to further […]
[…] as we still do on the brink of a new millennium, Latter-day Saints share with their neighbors and friends across the globe a profound interest in the fortunes of twenty-first-century war and peace. Not […]
[…] applied the term “marriage group” to a subset among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath ( and her polemic and confessional prologue), the Clerk, the Merchant, and the Franklin. Later scholars sometimes enlarged […]
[…] for Hughes’s lament that cronyism spawns “dishonest” enthusiasm for contemporaries’ work: Any human pursuit—from figure skating to stock brokerage—is subject to politics. Unfortunately, poetry is no exception. Nevertheless, it would seem that the greater […]
[…] bumper stickers and reasserting their native right to wear chapstick and be nice. Sales of hip-hop instruction videos have tripled and beef consumption is down by two-thirds over the previous quarter. What does it […]
[…] Dialogue Out Loud podcast, host Taylor Petrey interviews Nicholas Shrum about his thought-provoking essay, “Materializing Faith and Politics: The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion,” featured in the Summer 2024 […]
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[…] come from a family of Mormons, although perhaps somewhat unorthodox ones. Somewhere in England and what is today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named Joseph Smith and his vision of God […]
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[…] and feminine characters in theology—runs the risk of re-inscribing dualistic, structuralist hierarchies rather than challenging the gender politics of culture. Mormon feminists’ idealization of women and absolutization of sexual difference have yet to confront […]