Cristina Rosetti
CRISTINA ROSETTI holds a PhD in religious studies from the University of California, Riverside. Her research explores the history and lived experience of Mormon fundamentalists in the Intermountain West.
Articles
Knowing It’s True | Jeremy Christiansen, From the Susquehanna to the Tiber: A Memoir of Conversion from Mormonism to the Roman Catholic Church
“I am finally no longer asked to believe in things for which not only is there no evidence, but which the evidence strongly condemns on fair inspection. . . . Let me be clear: I believe in God,…
Read more“Fast from that Which is Not Perfect”: Food Abstinence and Fasting Cures in the Kingdom of God
Listen to the audio version of this piece here. Content warning: This article contains references to disordered eating and bodily harm. Orlean Beginning in March 1935, Orlean Kingston documented her rigorous fasts and visionary experiences…
Read moreMormonism’s Inside-Outsider Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd, Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait: How a Methodist Girl from Hueytown, Alabama, Became an Acclaimed Mormon Studies Scholar
Read more“O My Mother”: Mormon Fundamentalist Mothers in Heaven and Women’s Authority
Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 119–135
As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints moved away from the plural marriage revelation, a marital system that created the cosmological backdrop for the doctrine of Heavenly Mothers, the status of the divine feminine became increasingly distant from the lived experience of LDS women. Ecclesiastical changes altered women’s place within the cosmos.
Praise to the Man: The Development of Joseph Smith Deification in Woolleyite Mormonism, 1929–1977
Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 41–65
However, the 1886 Revelation and subsequent statement also raised their own doctrinal questions that were continually developed through the lineage that became Woolleyite Mormonism. Namely, why was the resurrected Joseph Smith present alongside Jesus Christ at the meeting with John Taylor?