Institutions, structures and traditional roles provide necessary meaning, support and direction in people’s lives. Chaos occurs when they are wholly lost, and yet too much structure and constricting roles, out-of step with a changing culture, contribute to problems which may require psychiatric treatment.
[…] 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 beliefs themselves […]
[…] or, the Lord may give a revelation that will end the differences of opinion’.” So why bother searching for the truth? Dr. Cheesman has obviously spent a great deal of effort researching his subject, […]
[…] while they were planning the Castle Gate payroll robbery. Often when the fish weren’t biting we would search in the brush along the creek for some evidence of the cabin where they had stayed. […]
[…] Historian,” Dialogue, 6 (Spring 1972): 23. Leonard’s philosophy and goals are revealed in the following articles: Church News, (January 15, 1972), p. 3, and (March 4, 1972), p. 3: The New Era, 4 (May […]
[…] issue. Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deserer News, 1950) V, 80n. Millennial Star 1 (1841), 252-55. Cf. Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the […]
Social scientists have frequently remarked on the proliferation of religious denominations, sects and cults in the United States. Since its early history, Mormonism has spawned a large number of sects directly or indirectly. At least…
[…] to welcome all races. In such situations discretion is important, but only as an essential factor in breaking down barriers. The church welcomes all who respond to the call of the Lord from among […]
[…] the Father and the Son. The morning of the Dispensation of the Fullness of Time had come, breaking the darkness of the long generations of spiritual night. As in the creation, light was to […]
[…] in 1870, has been called “the most remarkable women’s rights demonstration of the age.” The second, the International Women’s Year conclave of 1977, became “one of the greatest anti-feminist demonstrations of our time.” The […]