<i>Dialogue 55.4 (Winter 2022): 41–83</i><br> Drawing on observations and suggestions from scholars of Tibetan Buddhism and Mormonism, this article compares the production of the Book of Mormon with that of the class of Tibetan […]
<i>Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42</i><br> Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, […]
[…] experience with that subject had been mild shock when my English Romanticism professor, Orea Tanner, referred to stories of the Three Nephites as “folklore.” I had come to IU to pursue a much more […]
[…] Saints. Mormons are exhorted to read the scriptures and official publications such as the Ensign and Church News. Books written by the church’s general authorities are virtually guaranteed to sell in large quantities. Lessons […]
<i>Dialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 26–54</i><br>When the 1984 conference approved Section 156 , which also indicated that the soon-to-be-built temple in Independence would be dedicated to the pursuit of peace, it became clear that the […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33</i><br> Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]
[…] are added to the fold. Over seventy percent are converts, recruited by a veritable army of full- and part-time missionaries. As of 1979, the Church numbered over 4.2 million. At a 6.4 percent annual […]
[…] any honest dialogue whatsoever between educated members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and outsiders, the question of the historical origins of Mormonism must ever remain central. And in a […]
[…] (Fall 2021): 1–76</i><br> Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s conception of soteriology.
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 35–70</i><br> When we assess Joseph Smith’s early trials as if the word “pretended” indicated deliberate deception on Joseph’s part, we miss the larger picture.