[…] as the specific forms of secularization, affect only the main population; and the traditional mono-ethnic situation is breaking down in many countries. Not only does this engender the rebirth of ethnicity, currently the scourge […]
[…] accommodate white understandings of Blackness in Mormon theology. A study by writer-researcher Jana Riess of the Religion News Service found that 70 percent of Black Latter-day Saints believe the Mormon racial folklore of themselves […]
[…] man, are earnestly trying for a credible rejuvenation. A recent letter to the editor of the Deseret News (19 April 1979) stated, As a member of the LDS church . . . I must […]
[…] USA Inc., 1984); Banished Knowledge (New York: Doubleday, 1990); The Untouched Key (New York: Doubleday, 1990); and Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991). See also J. Konrad […]
[…] external imposition, shifting the locus of authority away from the power of the story itself (the “good news”) and toward an authority spawned by the partially artificial holiness suffusing our culturally created notion of […]
[…] say is that neither Joseph’s nor Corianton’s story is unambiguously or simply a story about keeping or breaking what we call “the law of chastity,” though clearly enough, each story does have something to […]
[…] died December 13, 1928, in his Centerville home at age ninety-seven. A 1933 article in a national news magazine evaluated his role. Mormon polygamy had almost become extinct, it explained, but “a schismatic cult […]
[…] trekking in the Andes with her fiancé Jorge, a returned missionary and graduate of Duke University in finance, but how had she come here? Why had no one tried to find her? Why no […]
[…] merely, but by using them to actually change things for the better. They are active principles for breaking up the world. The New Testament, like the Old, is a manual for revolution. The conventional […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992). Mauss, 85. Ibid., 167. Ibid.,xii. Ibid., 167. “Six Intellectuals,” 68. Deseret News, 1993-1994 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1992). See Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d […]