[…] something about each work as a whole. Olmstead’s aim is “to achieve a fairly balanced treatment of American religion” by steering a middle course between a sociological and a theological emphasis. His technique is […]
[…] last few years the Studies almost fulfilled the prophecy of its detractors. We learned from the Church News of September 9, 1967, that the Studies was being “revitalized” to gear the magazine to “serious […]
[…] William B., and Henry A. Smith. Deseret, 1776-1976: A Bicentennial Illustrated History of Utah by the Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1976. Warner, James A., and Styne M. Slade. The […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] mention the necessity of providing protection against the elements), the missionaries appealed to readers of the Deseret News to donate used clothing, “especially shirts, to help cover the nakedness of the Indians, especially the […]
[…] considered the religious experiences and doc trines of the Latter-day Saints in the con text of nineteenth-century American development. Writers like Charles Peterson, Wayne Wahlquist, Michael Raber, and Richard Jackson have reinterpreted Latter day […]
[…] to be recognized at a play by a member of the audience as having been at the BBC that day, or to be seated in a restaurant next to writers I’d wanted to meet, […]
[…] action as being needed for a long time. Next day a notice was published in the Deseret News that Thatcher had been “severed from the Council of Twelve Apostles and . . . deprived […]
[…] to understand the nature of the Book .” After he and his council listened to Cowdery’s “glad news,” the chief told the missionaries that the Delawares were “new settlers in this place” and had […]
[…] mainly read in the papers, that is, in the Ensign, and letters in the Tribune and Deseret News, and DIA LOGUE: THE JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT. Reflections on many of the topics I have […]