[…] track and baseball, lettering in football at the uncommonly light weight of 145 pounds, and writing sports news and publicity for the college teams. Yet long before he dropped out of sports so he […]
A concept called the “center periphery dichotomy” is sometimes used by social scientists to illustrate and analyze regional disparities. Center or core usually refers to those areas so richly endowed in population and resources […]
[…] biography of Henry Eyring, soon forthcoming. Twila Van Leer, “Fellow Scientists to Honor U’s Dr. Eyring,” Deseret News, 3 April 1976, p. 8A. Dorothy Stowe, “Science Was Art to Henry Eyring,” Deseret News, 10 […]
[…] John A. Widtsoe, In A Sunlit Land: The Autobiography of John A. Widtsoe (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1952), p. 161; George F. Richards, Journal, 30 Jan. 1925, LDS Church Archives; Heber J. Grant, […]
[…] 1906, General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News ), p. 19, here after cited as Conference Reports. “Priesthood Quorum’s Table,” Improvement Era 17 (May […]
<i>Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 75–88</i><br>Utah Mormons have had over a hundred years in which to systematize and institutionalize their beliefs. Institutionalized religion tends to expend its energies in conserving and promulgating the truths once […]
[…] has a remark able past. Nourished on the spectacular, the faith can count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. […]
[…] the state were often considered to be realms of disorder, of chaos, in a word, wilderness. Creation stories were frequently used to legitimize the cults and governments of ancient states. The best-known example from […]
[…] made when the History of Joseph Smith, as it was originally called, was serialized in the Deseret News in the late 1850s. Not only does this history place polygamy and Brigham Young’s ecclesiastical significance […]
[…] programs, independent of reigning trends among English-speaking saints. Hymnals are perhaps a good place to start. “ News of the Church,” Ensign 26 (Mar. 1996): 77. Existing studies include: Rodolfo Acevedo, Los mormones en […]