[…] what we do on the way to a still distant, spiritual-cultural destiny called Zion. The reading and writing of literature become enterprises that are part of the renovation of world culture enabled by the […]
[…] arose “from their seats enmass” exclaiming “Joseph has come! He is here!” While Eliza Ann Haven Westover, writing in 1918, remembered that “hundreds witnessed the , but not all that were there had that […]
During the 1830’s John Whitmer wrote, in connection with the ancient Egyptian records purchased by the church in July 1835 from Michael H. Chandler,
[…] In June 1838 Second Counselor Hyrum Smith and Assistant President John Smith joined eighty other Danites in writing a threatening letter to prominent Mormon dissenters at Far West, warning them to “depart or a […]
[…] considerable assets, Thomas’s work suffers from both minor and major flaws. The small quibbles relate to the writing style, which can be pedestrian (“This chapter will examine. . .”), and the distressing prevalence of […]
[…] questions some deeply held beliefs about the Saints’ tumultuous sojourn at the fringes of western Illinois. The writing is read able and engaging, the meaning clear. The tone is respectful, the analysis charitable, especially […]
[…] training, cultural historian by interest, and literary cultural critic by academic affiliation” (3). Her approach to the writing of the text is interdisciplinary, and she is particularly interested in “reflexive” or “reciprocal” ethnography (4). […]
[…] desired to put Brigham Young, Jr., into the vacancy, but this did not take place. Brigham Jr., writing in his journal, gave a remarkable behind-the-scenes view of what happened at this point: “Bro. Geo. […]
[…] 121:41-42). Also, through fasting, praying, serving in callings, going to the temple, doing missionary work, performing community service, and participating in other programs and activities, we have seen spiritual power work as a positive […]
[…] detachment from his subject. For eleven years from 1980 until 1991, while doing the original research and writing for this study for his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, […]