<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 that marriage.
[…] gold plates, called for retiring to a secluded area in the woods and engraving the four cardinal directions on each side of a lead plate along with the accompanying names and signs of the […]
[…] and appreciation they will become brothers and advocates of peace and goodwill.” According to Larsen, harmonious design can have a positive effect on our thoughts, moods, and attitudes. “Pictures in churches should be worthy […]
<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.
[…] specializing in American religious history and history of Christian doctrine. Mark D. Thomas: Scriptural Studies Editor, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Margaret Toscano: Ph.D. candidate, comparative literature, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. […]
<i>Dialogue 18.1 (Spring 1985): 9–105</i><br> Quinn shares that even with the Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders […]
Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “<a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-genesis-of-a-churchs-stand-on-race/2012/02/22/gIQAQZXyfR_story.html”>The Genesis of a church’s stand on race</a>” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein.
<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68</i><br>Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
[…] their thirties and forties. My own fieldwork indicates that recent converts to Mormon fundamentalism come from two directions: previous converts to the LDS church from other faiths, and LDS church members with polygamous ancestry. […]