[…] strictest controls” on sexual norms, as seems to be happening nowadays. Following Cohen, we may interpret the USA vs. Mormon conflict in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a typical manifestation of […]
[…] Europe. By a century later the count rose to between 150 million and 200 million. The initial market for books was a thin stratum of Latin readers in Europe, but that quickly changed. When Martin […]
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For the most part, Mormons have been a socially homogeneous people. True, the initial Anglo-American stock was reinforced from time to time by immigrants from Western Europe, but these converts were quickly absorbed into […]
[…] The common end is the enrichment of the life of the spirit; the common enemy is the market place. That the end, or at least the highest end, of religion is the enrichment of […]
[…] principles (plural marriage or organic evolution) or which involved larger political interests (dietary rules, member involvement in politics), or a combination (the League of Nations controversy). It is, I believe, at these stress points […]
[…] from Emperor Basil II of Constantinople. A renegade general had gathered an army to march on the Christian capital, and the emperor begged Prince Vladimir for an army to buttress the defense of his throne.
[…] Aamulehti , November 7, 2006, A7. Stephen Harold Riggins, “The Rhetoric of Othering,” in The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse, edited by Stephen Harold Riggins (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997), […]
[…] at Mountain Meadows (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Ronald W. Walker, a history of Mormonism’s darkest hour, is itself a history-making event. A scholarly […]
[…] the United States,” Perspectives on History (Dec. 2012). J. Edward Chamberlin, “From Hand to Mouth: The Postcolonial Politics of Oral and Written Traditions,” in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, edited by Marie Battiste (Vancouver: […]