[…] 1968. Stegner, Wallace. Mormon Country. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. $1.95. A reprint. Stoiber, Susanne A. Legislative Politics in the Rocky Mountain West. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, Bureau of Government Research and Service, […]
In an effort to keep Dialogue’s readers abreast of current research on the subject “Mormons and Mormonism,” the second issue of each volume (Summer issue) is devoted to a listing of theses and dissertations […]
[…] Studies or Shaker Studies? We all know the answer (there are zero Oneida Perfectionists or Shakers living today), but rehashing this question in the context of a book that compares followers of John Humphrey […]
[…] to challenge that very intellectual tradition, not to be co-opted by it; and I can see nothing today that modifies or invalidates that challenge. As one sophisticated Mormon thinker wrote, “If the history of […]
[…] and “Why are Non-Mormons Called Gentiles?” A brief chapter discusses the growth and activities of the Church today, and the book con cludes with a list of “Some Famous American Mormons of the Nineteenth […]
[…] generally have zip and vigor, accorded by rock beats and Latin rhythms. The work has a “ today” flavor, with plenty of appeal to the youth of the Church. But today’s sounds become yesterday’s […]
[…] the Reorganization. Typical of the body of literature are the following: The Restoration Story and The Good News, both missionary booklets of the 1950’s; Telling the Gospel Story, a junior quarterly of 1945; E.A. […]
[…] animals for a nickel or a dime in the expectation that she would have a sizeable live stock holding in the hereafter. Then there were the old bachelors, chief among them Bert Westover who […]
[…] are able to obtain a place in higher education (8% at Universities—the rest in Colleges of Education and Polytechnics). This means that higher education is effectively reserved for an elite compared to the wider […]
[…] his reputation, and when a nephew told him. “Well, Uncle Golden, I heard another J. Golden yarn today,” he scoffed, “I’ll bet the damn thing isn’t genuine. Seems like all the stories told these […]