[…] of Lorde’s purposes is to describe how patriarchy confuses and suppresses eros’s power. Lorde says that “in order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the […]
[…] act of mourning and defiance. In a strange inherited heartbreak, I find myself liable to tear up over lost gloves, let alone a misplaced loved item. Collections have also made me particularly sympathetic to […]
[…] rationale for the doctrine rather than continuing it for more than three more decades. Imagine the Church over that extended period unburdened by its heavy racial history! There is no way to calculate the […]
Join Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey as he interviews Tanner Davidson McAlister about his article, “ The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel” for our 39th episode of […]
<i>Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 171-174</i><br> Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter-day Saints. Her unique esthetic of feminine deity offers Latter-day Saint women a trajectory for godhood—the ultimate goal of Mormon theology.
[…] Americans, I am frightened by what is rhetorically (and often demagogically) called the breakdown of law and order in my country. As is also true for most, no member of my family has suffered […]
[…] Apostles.” This claim greatly excited Rigdon, as he had constantly tried and failed to establish the “ancient order of things” in Alexander Campbell’s religious movement. Rigdon was nevertheless very skeptical of Mormonism because “they […]
[…] condensed version currently presented to tourists in Salt Lake City. The music, however, deservedly lives on. The Order Is Love, by a full Mormon team (story, lyrics and music) has reversed this situation in […]
[…] and the ethical ambivalence that characterized the rise of industrialization, these communities offered not a retreat from social order but a laboratory in which a new complex of religious and social values could be developed […]
[…] 1914, in the first issue of the new Relief Society Bulletin, Susa Young Gates emphasized the coming order of things. She advised Relief Society sisters who found “a question arising in your minds or […]