Church Influence Upon the Family
May 4, 2018[…] October, 1966, General Conference. The first is that of taking the message of the restoration to the world. “The other great purpose of the Church is to translate truth into a better social order […]
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Three Myths About Mormons in Latin America
April 30, 2018[…] cultural mainstream. Although successful missions were established among the Indians and especially among the Polynesians, it was nevertheless the English-speaking white Americans who gave the Church its leadership and set the tone of its culture.
Illustrated Periodical Images of Mormons, 1850-1860
April 26, 2018Image history—how the Mormons were viewed by others—has been a fruitful approach used by several historians during the past decade.
Halldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land
April 25, 2018[…] pen into a weapon against social injustice. His stark masterpieces Salka Valka (1931-32), Independent People (1934) and World Light (1937-40) depict the plight of defenseless and abject people struggling indomitably against indifferent nature and […]
Art and the Church: or “The Truths of Smoother”
April 22, 2018[…] arts. Old Nick had circled some passages in a bright red magic marker. I quote: In our world, there have risen brilliant stars in drama, music, literature, sculpture, painting, science, and all the graces. […]
Making “The Good” Good for Something: A Direction for Mormon Literature
April 18, 2018[…] of published works in the field of Mormon literature today consists of cliches borrowed from the larger world of bad literature. This cheap and easy fiction, the pretty romances, the cute tales of cute […]
Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175
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 […]
Polygamy, Mormonism, and Me
March 20, 2018Dialogue 41.2 (Summer 2009): 85–101Hardy describes the long, difficult process of researching polygamy during a time that the church wasn’t open about polygamy.
The Possessive Investment in Rightness: White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement
January 14, 2019Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 45–81Brooks explains that “Mormons will have to choose to acknowledge the pivotal and pervasive role of white supremacy in the founding of LDS institutions and the growth of the Mormon movement.”
The Life of Brigham Young: A Biography Which Will Not Be Written
May 4, 2018[…] the Apostles; that its Priesthood and ordinances were valid; that its duty was to preach throughout the world and to bring converts to Utah, where they would be guided by the Church’s leaders towards […]