[…] consideration of the United Order and an analysis of vernacular magic in interpreting Joseph Smith’s experiences (Arrington, Fox, and May 1976, 18-19; Hill 1972, 74, 76-68; Bushman 1984, 7, 69-76). It is true that […]
[…] They know me as well as I know them and we value and trust our relationship. I am also fortunate in being in a field where having healthy, functional relationships among colleagues and as […]
[…] the “higher law” of the afterlife which they were being called by God and his prophet to live in this life; and that it was an ordinance necessary to salvation. Not only would it […]
[…] were misled by the plausibility of his documents from every perspective, and by his engaging, if elusive, stories of how they had come into his hands. His lies were told with such apparent candor […]
[…] little girl. “She nags at me—she seems to be asking me what has happened to all those stories and poems I was going to write” (p. 20). This is a bittersweet collection, at the […]
[…] 23.3 (Fall 1990): 79–95</i><br>MOST RESEARCH BY MORMON FEMINISTS has been historical in nature. Proponents of greater power and privilege for women cite as precedents the lives of Huldah and Deborah of the Old Testament, […]
[…] It turns out that she had just seen an interview with a Utah polygamist on a morning news program. My father assured her that Steve was not a polygamist and urged her to go […]
[…] We make this request with a considerable sense of guilt but are prompted by sheer desperation. I am prepared to escort my father to Fort Lyon if so authorized. Janet comes to the door. […]
[…] cathouses and casinos. Though I came along too late for the glory days of Twenty-fifth Street, I am heir to stories of grandfathers who, how shall I say, kept taps on the nightlife? Among […]
[…] of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community over the reasons behind this legislation.