If viewed in terms of quantitative measurements, economic progress dictates not only the physical image of a landscape but, more potentially, the cycles and processes inherent in that landscape as well. There is, of course,…
Mormons are usually startled by the appearance of new theological movements in Catholic or Protestant circles. Without probing into their content, analyzing their presuppositions, or seeking to understand their origins, they often dismiss these movements…
In view of the fact that my father had sacrificed both worldly goods and his chances in heaven for the dream of the great patriarchal family, it is ironical that the only time all six…
I’m fifty. I’m not as perceptive about certain things in life as I was when I was a student; however in some ways I am more perceptive. When I was nineteen, during the depression, after…
A continuing problem of the Mormon intellectual is to remain both Mormon and intellectual. His is the problem of religious intellectuals generally—to dare to follow where the mind leads, to prevent the indecision that comes…
I’m more than a movie-goer, I’m a critic. That means the question, “What did you think of (any movie)?” requires more than “It was great” or “It was lousy.” It means I’m hardly ever paid…
Since 1952 I have conducted a part-time private practice along with university teaching. On leaves from the university and during summer months I have worked as a clinical psychologist at the Utah State Hospital in…
This paper was written during the summer of 1968 for a course in special problems in the acquisition of materials at the UCLA Graduate School of Library Service. The original paper has been revised and condensed for the readers of Dialogue since much of it dealt with the historiographical problems inherent in the collecting of Mormon material, a subject which has been treated at length by Dialogue and other sources.
This paper is not intended to be an exhaustive study, but is rather a brief survey of the collections of Mormon Americana in the Salt Lake City area, all of which I have visited with the exception of the Church Historian’s Office. The purpose, then, of this treatise is to introduce these libraries to those people unfamiliar with their resources and to discuss some of the idiosyncracies of each collection. Also included is a brief discussion of the new bibliography on Mormon Americana.
The motion picture Mondo Cane taught us that the chronicler’s job is to assemble his collectanea in straightforward reportage. Dr. Palmer’s book is a lucid chronicle (from 1851 to 1969) of some missionarying Mormons turning…
The Mormons is the second in the Freedom to Worship series designed to tell stories of “outstanding Americans of the nineteenth century and their different religious beliefs.” The series is intended to fit into the…