[…] another great debt we owe that publisher, which has almost singlehandedly kept serious Mormon fiction on the market the past twenty years. The Backslider, in my opinion, rivals Sorensen’s The Evening and the Morning […]
[…] of Utah more at home with professors than fellow students: his early lessons in academic and church politics came in long conversations with philosopher E. E. Erickson and sociologist Arthur Beeley. The most startling […]
[…] his developing theology as one of its chief virtues. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, this attitude continued to animate authoritative interpretations and defenses of Mormon doctrine […]
[…] written for non-Mormons and Mormons alike, focusing on what is distinctive and culturally significant about this growing American movement” (xi). They know their task is a tall one, for “no religion in American history […]
[…] Mormondom that women are more mystical and spiritual than men. This familiar idea, still given lip service today, probably did not originate with Tullidge, but let us consider his analysis. He sets up the […]
[…] to the Cavalry at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, while Custer was there. His hands smooth the stock, and he carefully points out the cartouche on the side. With obvious pride he tells me, […]
[…] Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small and likely unique (3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) 39-page pamphlet titled, “Om Mormonerne” (About the Mormons), by […]
[…] less censored European films, works of Bergman, Fellini and Renoir, among others, create a small art house market. They knew, of course, that the sex, violence, and subversion of those films could be translated […]
[…] we as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints do not have the market cornered on dogmatism or close-mindedness. Just as there can be dogmatic Mormons, there can be dogmatic […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175</i><br>In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages […]