Nearly fifteen years have passed since I, in looking around for a thesis topic, began to read “Mormon novels.” It seems odd to remember how electrifying were the “forbidden” Vardis Fisher and others I […]
[…] generation at least, a sort of ghetto. Until television came, they were unbelievably cut off from the world. But even if the people do know more of the outside, their religious beliefs reinforce habit. […]
[…] the bitter cost if we fail. Of course not all days follow this pattern. Weekends are another world, and sometimes the whole system comes to a grinding halt. Illness, an unusual church or community […]
Klaus J. Hansen’s review of Doyle L. Fitzpatrick’s The King Strang Story: A Vindication of James J. Strang, the Beaver Island King in the Spring 1971 Dialogue is the latest manifestation of a currently […]
[…] issue of Dialogue emphasizes the relationship between Mormonism and American culture. John Sorenson’s lead article on “Mormon World View and American Culture” sets the stage by attempting to make a distinction between the gospel […]
The materials reviewed in this bibliography are books—new and reprint—published since the last book list appeared in the Autumn/Winter 1973 issue of Dialogue. This is a selected listing excluding some of the publications […]
[…] Pacific Railroad.” It is Brigham benign and paternalistic toward his sons and, toward the rest of the world, self-assured, firmly entrenched in the faith and in the works of Zion so materially visible on […]
[…] and three levels of underground parking for 1,400 cars. The Church has approximately 6,700 buildings throughout the” world, including meetinghouses, temples, mission homes, visitors centers, welfare facilities, and seminary and institute buildings. In 1979, […]
[…] Mormon prelate has to look, not merely to the spiritual welfare of his flock, but to their worldly interest and wellbeing; to see that their farms are cultivated, their houses clean, their children taught, […]
[…] it is unperceptive to dismiss Mormonism “as little more than an elaborate idiosyncratic strain of the nineteenth-century search for primitive Christianity” (p. 68), or to perceive twentieth century Mormonism as “an idiosyncratic Protestant denomination” […]