[…] began in 1988. The volume re viewed is part of a massive study project sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and carried out under the direction of the distinguished American religious […]
[…] lepers be cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead be raised and the poor have the good news preached to them. What is remarkable in all this is how many different deeds and sayings […]
[…] its self important stem and position it on the playing field of the world next to sexual politics, American law, the gay aesthetic, disease, drug abuse, hallucinations, and mystical experience. Suddenly the angel Moroni, […]
[…] (Utah) Stake; LDS Deceased Members File; Ogden 2nd Ward Membership Records, 32; “Madeline C. Reeder,” Deseret Evening News, 27 June 1956; “Rites Wednesday for Contractor: S.L. Build er Dies at Age of 76 From […]
[…] noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to his time.
[…] pp., $19.95 paper, $36.95 cloth. For an example of this kind of history, see Loretta Fowler’s Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982). Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of […]
Theology is usually considered an intellectual activity for philosophers and educated religionists. Actually, most humans discuss the same sub jects, but at a different level than do the pundits. Commoners too cogitate upon the […]
[…] period piece from the decade after the Scopes trial, the other a wide-ranging discussion about evolution for today’s Latter day Saint students—show that the winds from Tennessee still blow fiercely three quarters of a […]
[…] parallels between my own life and that of Fawn Brodie. She was born of stalwart Mormon pioneer stock, her ancestors having migrated to Utah during the mid-nineteenth century. Similarly, my own Mormon ancestors migrated […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]