[…] followers change into legal or ‘estate-like’ (traditional) staff, or the meaning of charisma itself may undergo change.”[ 6] Weber would undoubtedly have been interested in the transition of the LDS Church from a charismatic […]
Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180 This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the 1850s into the 1990s.
Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1990): 114–121 Lehr discussed the journey undertaken by Charles O. Card to move to Canada and preserve polygamy, before the First Manifesto during a time that members were being hunted down […]
[…] nineteenth-century US racial politics had on the development of the priesthood ban for members of African descent,[ 6] but no such discussion of culture and gender politics has yet been addressed in Church publications […]
[…] (5) explanation of the earth’s geology by catastrophism, including the occurrence of a worldwide flood; and ( 6) a relatively recent inception of the earth and living kinds.[1] Advocates of this view, which is […]
[…] strict and culturally conventional institution. Often pulling up to three hundred student participants, these protests marked a watershed moment for LGBTQ+ discourse at the conservative flagship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[…] we don’t have to choose between being Mormon or gay. We can be fully affirmed as both.”[ 6] After years of ignoring Affirmation, the Church began collaborating with it on strategy and messaging. Affirmation […]
[…] old neighborhood, he asked her where she grew up as “he wanted to make sure he didn’t buy a house in that area.”[4] Colleen’s list includes forty-two people, many of them my old schoolmates […]
I don’t know where I was or what I was doing when news spread about what has become known as the November 2015 exclusion policy. I might not have known about it at all. […]
[…] found they had held true through 1994. In 1985, he had estimated the Church would have between 6.7 million and 8.2 million members; the actual figure for 1995 was 9.0 million.[4] Even for 2000, […]