[…] The Father was “a God not only possessing body and parts, but flesh and bones, and si news, and all the attributes, organs, senses, and affections of a perfect man.” Logically, he argued, “beings […]
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] project examined. In fact Kluckhohn’s systematic formulation of the value of these cultures showed that the Mormons shared only a small number of “value-orientations” with white American (Texan) immigrants to the project area while […]
[…] more openly associated with gay and lesbian members. It was also the subject of a later ground- breaking study conducted by lesbian club member, Mildred Berryman. Begun in the 1920s, The Psychological Phenomena of […]
[…] accused Simon Southerton and me of confusing science with theology in a related article appearing in Anthropology News. Yet despite such bold statements, each critic basically concedes the scientific evidence. Gardner wrote: Is it […]
[…] items the author has managed to miss many important collections of primary sources. Aside from a few newspapers, several contemporary books, a few published journals, and fifteen manuscripts (not all of which are significant) […]
[…] version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. “Book of Mormon Reaches 150 Million Copies,” Church News and Events, April 20, 2011, https://www.lds.org/church/news/ book-of-mormon-reaches-150-million-copies. Latter-day Saint explorations of the Book of Mormon are […]
[…] I had been in the township on foot, asking the people I encountered, in the best Zulu- English I could muster, for directions to the local elementary school. At that hour, unknown to me, […]
[…] paths. The task of understanding each other’s religion then becomes ever more difficult. Even though we frequently share a common vocabulary, scriptures, and a mutual historical starting point, the RLDS and LDS churches now […]
[…] lack of confidence. Nor was there a lack of confidence in the missionaries who carried the good news of the Restoration to all nations. One missionary, lecturing in Boston’s Boylston Hall, was described as […]