[…] built upon his original research in Latin America and has published multiple books and journal articles about international Mormonism for academic and religious audiences. Grass Roots in Mexico is primarily written for a mainstream […]
[…] Many Doolittle (1802–1894) was a granddaughter of Joseph McKune Sr. and grew up knowing Emma. An 1887 newspaper interview with Mrs. Doolittle reported: “While Joe was upon his farm he had the Mormon Bible. […]
[…] Simple chiasms, which are most characteristic of those written in western languages such as Greek, Latin, and English, are distinguished from extended chiasms characteristic of Hebrew and other ancient languages, in which there can […]
[…] of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 2d ed. rev., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902-12, Vol. 7 published 1932; 1976 printing), 4:358-60. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d. ed. […]
[…] (New York: Basic Books, 1970); Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology I, II (New York: Basic Books, 1963, 1976); International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 1968 ed., “Myth and Symbol,” by Victor Turner. Alan Heimerl, Religion […]
[…] this manuscript with those in the third line of the papyrus fragment. Joseph Smith apparently translated many English words from each Egyptian character. The characters from fewer than four lines of the papyrus make […]
[…] Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1948), III, p. 167n; hereafter cited as DHC. Orson Hyde, who seconded Marsh’s allegations in 1838, […]
Soon the deer will leave the mountains. Search our garden for vegetation. Bite the tops off tea roses, their teeth leaving scars. In the yard the ash tree drops leaves into the browning grass. […]
[…] 1843 in her Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow . . . (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Company, 1884), 70, 73, and 75. Abigail had married Enoch V. Leavitt (1799-1866) in 1821, but […]
[…] got my first acceptance letters a few months later and was not just relieved but energized. The news felt good, and it felt right. Whatever I was to do with my future, the Spirit […]