[…] progressivism in the “New Mormon History,” arguing as it does that God’s word is spreading to the world and that this is a positive development, when there are other appropriate ways to view the […]
[…] argued for a Book of Mormon geography that limited its people to small regions in the New World, and open discussion of such matters became more difficult. The efforts of Jakeman, Ferguson, and Franklin […]
[…] and demographic perspectives to provide an overview of the dynamics operating to shape the configuration of Mormondom—the world’s Latter-day Saint population—for the period 1950- 2020. First, we regionalize the highly uneven distribution of the […]
[…] use to formulate positions and express them regarding specific wars in which the United States, as the world’s only “hyper-puissance,” enters, and help separate their own LDS-ness from the geopolitical interests of their own […]
[…] G. Romney reminds us in a recent article entitled “The Price of Peace” that peace in the world can only be attained after every one has gained “spiritual peace”; until then every effort is […]
[…] to become at least as renowned as Warner Sallman’s familiar ‘Head of Christ’ popularized throughout Christianity after World War II” (fig. 9). Figure 9. Jesus the Christ by Del Parson. Copyright by Intellectual Reserve. […]
[…] City’s non-Mormon population swelled into the hundreds—primarily males—and the next two decades were filled with violent incidents breaking out along religious lines of division. LDS leadership did not discourage this, but actu ally created […]
[…] authority—had merit. In his forceful language he stressed the destiny of America: A destiny to conquer the world—not by force of arms, not by purchase and favor, for these conquests wash away, but by […]
[…] nationalities and races—the Depression-born Works Progress Administration (WPA) would count twenty-eight in my town. This was a world of anxiety for a child of immigrant parents. Stepping out of the home each day meant […]
[…] America was a microcosm of European nationalities. . . . Today America is a microcosm of the world” (in Henry 1990, 28-29). Religions have not been immune from ethnic discrimination. During the nineteenth century, […]