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Volume 26, No. 4

Winter 1993

Articles/Essays

The Psychology of Religious Genius: Joseph Smith and the Origins of New Religious Movements

Lawrence Foster

Dialogue 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1–22
The analysis that follos is an admittedly speculative personal reflection on elements that need to be kept in mind in understanding the psychological dynamics of Joseph Smith’s creativity.

Having More Learning Than Sense: William E. McLellin and the Book of Commandments Revisited

Mark R. Grandstaff

The Struggle for Power in the Mormon Battalion

Larry D. Christiansen

“A Banner Is Unfurled”: Mormonism’s Ensign Peak

Ronald W. Walker

Telling the Tales and Telling the Truth: Writing the History of Widtsoe

Karl C. Sandberg

Heinrich Hug and Jacob Tobler: From Switzerland to Santa Clara, 1854-80

Douglas F. Tobler

Dialogue and Difference: “I and Thou” or “We and They”

Seymour Cain

From Emerson to Alma: A Personal Odyssey

Helen F. Maxson

Risk and Terror

John S. Harris

Joseph Smith’s “Inspired Translation” of Romans 7

Ronald V. Huggins

Lost on Both Sides

Don J. McDermott

I suppose we all share the same space at one time or another. One can search out these spaces, as I have. Outside Paris I spent an afternoon mulling about in Malmaison, Napoleon and Josephine’s…