[…] Armand Mauss’s study of “Mormonism and the Negro”) would be helpful in identifying those blind spots Mormons share with others. Regardless of the causes of apparent lack of concern, it is important to know […]
[…] to religion. A variety of social, political, and economic as well as religious forces are active in breaking through the parochial character of Mormonism. During the years of President McKay’s administration the Church was […]
[…] a “world where every man’s a brother.” He sings: I saw a world where every man would share. A world where not one soul Was left alone and cold, A world where every man […]
[…] Karolides, The Pioneer in the American Novel: 1900-1950 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967); Thomas Elliott Berry, The Newspaper in the American Novel: 1900-1969 (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1970). Social Scientists have also […]
[…] the West has happened in a single generation in Asia. Japan was ushered forcibly into the modern world by Perry’s American fleet; China began the process, still incomplete, during the Opium War; India, Indonesia […]
[…] to a higher level” (and left students gasping? p. 24). (Yes, I do read like a freshman English teacher, which among other things I am; but reviewers can put away childish things when writers […]
[…] Song delights the Lord’s soul, and it is a fitting metaphor of the joy our souls may share in His presence. Take the next part of the verse: “The song of the righteous is […]
[…] man’s unconscious, dissected the strange beliefs of tribal societies and examined the religious survivors of a secularized world in search of naturalistic explanations of religious phenomena with the result that the validity of religious […]
[…] think he would have carried on both jobs had it not been for the earlier insult. When World War I broke out in April 1917, we had a very small professional army in the […]
[…] it, I have three alternatives: I can throw away my Mormon heritage (rejecting my personal history and breaking family ties); I can recant my heresy, and repent (giving up my academic and personal integrity); […]