[…] Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel, the intricate details of Joseph’s early life are illuminated. Paradigm -shifting scholarship about the Smith family’s supernatural beliefs come from works such as Early Mormonism and the […]
<i>Dialogue 57:4 (Winter 2024) 33–66 </i><br> Over the past decade, a growing and exciting body of scholarship in Mormon studies has applied critical theory to Mormon history, specifically queer and race critical theory.
<i>Dialogue 48.2 (Summer 2015): 1–57</i><br>Although race and gender are connected in 2 Nephi 26:33, the historical origins of the gender ban have not yet been addressed with the same degree of attention in Church discourse.
[…] illustrators to interpret the Church’s unique history and gospel themes. Church officials, however, decided to turn to professional artists outside of the faith to create correlatively directed artwork. In the 1960s, Seventh–day Adventist artist […]
<i>Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson 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 […]
[…] to the 2018 decision to emphasize the full name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, those made to the official Latter–day Saint web and digital presence stand out in particular. […]
Listen to an interview about this piece here. In 2014, Latter -day Saint painter Jon McNaughton painted a triumphal and patriotic, yet reverent, scene of Cliven Bundy on horseback, with one hand lifting an […]
<i>Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180</i><br>This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the 1850s into the 1990s.
[…] and others. The following statement shows a clear departure from previous positions: “It is unethical to focus professional treatment on an assumption that a change in sexual orientation will or must occur.”50 While these […]
“It was not a self -consistent ideology but a movement—a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that […]