Mauro Properzi

MAURO PROPERZI {[email protected]} is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on "Emotions in LDS Canonical Texts at Durham University (United Kingdom) under the supervision of Professor Douglas Davies. He has taught as adjunct faculty at both Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University, and his main academic interest focuses on the interaction between psychology and religion. A native of Italy, he and his wife, Larissa, have a daughter, Isabella.

Belonging (and Believing) as LDS Scholars of Religion

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 3

More than half a century ago, sociologist Thomas O’Dea said the following about the university student who is a Latter-day Saint: “He has been taught by the Mormon faith to seek knowledge and to value it; yet it is precisely this course, so acceptable to and so honored by his religion, that is bound to bring religious crisis to him and profound danger to his religious belief. The college undergraduate curriculum becomes the first line of danger to Mormonism in its encounter with modern learning.”