Dig
March 28, 2018I began to dream I
was soil and you
were a plant that grew
in me, root hard
DiaBLOGue
The Dynamics of LDS Growth in Guatemala, 1948-1998
March 28, 2018The U.S.-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is rapidly becoming a worldwide church, particularly since the 1950s. One major reason for this is the church’s ambitious evangelization program: In 2000 it had 60,000…
The Book of Mormon and Religious Epistemology
March 28, 2018In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, the Penan of Borneo, struggling to converse with them in their native tongue. He was distressed to realize he could not translate one particular phrase: “I believe in God.”
Legacy
March 28, 2018Her afghans and roses give her day a pattern
that will untighten her mouth pursed by a memory—
how her mother would fatten the favored son with milk,
claiming only boys needed calcium, not girls.
Gethsemane and Calvary in LDS Soteriology
March 28, 2018In this paper I explore one of the key ways in which the idea of salvation as formulated within LDS thought differs from expressions of salvation in other religious groups. I will also raise the…
Place, Time, and Family in Mormonism
March 28, 2018Christianity claims to be a universal religion, but in its origins and development it is also a Mediterranean religion, a religion which began among the Jews of Israel at the joining point of the great…
Mormon Studies in a European Setting
March 28, 2018I am particularly grateful for the invitation to edit this special edition of Dialogue, largely because it allows me to address readers in a relatively informal and conversational way on certain academic issues which often…
Remembering the Chevrolet
March 28, 2018 Gene’s criticism is a stone upon my mouth. He accused:
“You resurrect words I like, like bodies brought too often
from the tomb to be surprising, interesting, new.” Like Clint, who
loved saying “portico,” and Gene himself: speaking all that religion
Remembering the 1849–50 Pratt Expedition | William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart, eds., Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849–50
March 28, 2018It is fitting that the 1850 exploration of the Mormon corridor through the Great Basin area of Brigham Young’s State of Deseret and the settlement that followed a year later received attention from Utah historians…
New York Believers | Tony Carnes and Anna Karpathakis, eds., New York Glory: Religions in the City
March 28, 2018Church going is not usually one of the primary images associated with New York City, but it seems that “the city-that-never-sleeps” may not be such a godless metropolis after all. New York Glory is an…