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Volume 36, No. 4

Winter 2003

Articles/Essays

The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma

Lawrence Foster

The Prophet’s Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster’s “The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma”

Len Oaks

From Captain Kidd’s Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism

Ronald V. Huggins

Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon

Clay L. Chandler

“There Really is a God and He Dwells in the Temporal Parietal Lobe of Joseph Smith’s Brain”

William J. Hamblin

Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon

Robert M. Price

A Biographer’s Burden: Evaluating Robert Remini’s Joseph Smith and Will Bagley’s Brigham Young

Newell G. Bringhurst

Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon

Thomas W. Murphy

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

Kieth A. Crandall

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

Dean H. Leavitt, Kieth A. Crandall and Jonathon C. Marshall

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

Jonathon C. Marshall

Sidney Rigdon’s 1820 Ministry: Preparing the Way for Mormonism in Ohio

Richard McClellan

On Being Adopted: Julia Murdock Smith

Sunny McClellan Morton

The LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends

William D. Russell

2003: William D. Russell, “The LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 36 No. 4 (2003): 177-192. In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence,...

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Power and Powerlessness: A Personal Perspective

Robert A. Rees

Another Death

Thomas F. Rogers

Coyote Laughter

Joe Staples

Plinka, Plinka, Plinka

Bessie Loyd Soderborg Clark

Scenes from the Movie

Kim Simpson

Cemetery Life

Kylie Nielson Turley

The Prophet’s Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster’s “The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma”

Len Oaks

A New Look at Old Sites on Mountain Meadows: Historical Topography, by Morris A. Shirts and Frances Anne Smeath

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Joseph Smith, by Robert V. Remini

Paul Guajardo

All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, by Armand L. Mauss

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Volume 36, No. 4

Contents

Articles/Essays

The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma

The Prophet’s Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster’s “The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma”

From Captain Kidd’s Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism

Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon

“There Really is a God and He Dwells in the Temporal Parietal Lobe of Joseph Smith’s Brain”

Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon

A Biographer’s Burden: Evaluating Robert Remini’s Joseph Smith and Will Bagley’s Brigham Young

Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

Sidney Rigdon’s 1820 Ministry: Preparing the Way for Mormonism in Ohio

On Being Adopted: Julia Murdock Smith

The LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends

Power and Powerlessness: A Personal Perspective

Fiction

Another Death

Coyote Laughter

Personal Voices

Plinka, Plinka, Plinka

Scenes from the Movie

Cemetery Life

Response

The Prophet’s Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster’s “The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma”

Reviews

A New Look at Old Sites on Mountain Meadows: Historical Topography, by Morris A. Shirts and Frances Anne Smeath

Joseph Smith, by Robert V. Remini

All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, by Armand L. Mauss