[…] Mormonism with great interest and a heightened sense of the adventure of the Smith family in bringing forth the Book of Mormon. I soon discovered that a campfire surrounded by twelve-to-eighteenyear-old boys was not […]
[…] of Editors, is a graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cali fornia, Santa Barbara. Last fall (1970) I received a mid-day phone call from Provo. The caller had […]
[…] a better place, a better time, or a better people than the people of early nineteenth-century America for the “restitution of all things.” After a decade of religious revivalism, the booming economy of the […]
Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–154
England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which […]
Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 158–166
Despite what researchers have said over the years regarding for why men married plural wives, Embry argues that a significant portion of husbands married plural wives because of their […]
[…] Church. At 9 A.M. that same morning, Arizona’s Governor Howard Pyle intoned solemnly over KTAR radio: Be fore dawn today the State of Arizona began and now has substantially concluded a momentous police action […]
[…] socials. The first group was founded in Salt Lake City. Even being based in Utah, they couldn’t depend on a lot of outside support from other members or Church leaders, which became isolating for them.
[…] Thomasson wrote in response to Lester Bush’s Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Review which that article caused him to reflect on what he believes and so it became to be very valuable for him personally.
[…] university where she taught. We laughed at the poem’s pungent satire, then pondered its attack on “living for others.” “Isn’t that what we are supposed to do?” someone said. Our potential for disagreement was […]
[…] recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it. Constructing a timeline of key events rein forced the point. In 1972, the year Rosemary Radford Ruether introduced feminist theology at the Harvard Divinity […]