By adopting the above-cited definition of mysticism, the compilers of the “Topical Guide” (LDS Edition 1979) distance Mormonism from a religious heritage which is perhaps as old as any other of record. The most […]
When the above notice appeared in the Improvement Era in September 1933, it did not seem out of place in a publication intended for the general church membership. In the same issue of the […]
[…] functions and services’ for those who believe in them, in or der to conform to ‘the celestial order of things’ members must in time be adapted to meet the principles of truth,”[61] the Catholic […]
Seven and a half blocks east and five blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the 0,0 of the city’s cardinally aligned grid, an inconspicuous gate on the north side of the street opens […]
[…] since the death of its leader, Ervil LeBaron, in a Utah prison in 1981.[23] 4. The Aaronic Order in the Nevada desert.[24] 5. “Independents.” Independents do not affiliate with any of the groups but […]
Dialogue 38.3 (Spring 2004): 1–74 Bergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.
This article examines John T. Clark, a relatively little-known but influential figure in the rise of fundamentalism among the Latter-day Saints during the early twentieth century. By 1921, small groups of excommunicated polygamists had […]
[…] of Rocky Mountain Riders, part of a series of very short motion pictures depicting American troops in the Spanish-American War. Since then thousands of films and television programs have dealt with Mormonism; at present […]
[…] the historical narratives associated with Joseph Smith’s “golden plates” through the lenses provided by Robert Orsi’s theory of “abundant events” in order to test the suitability of Orsi’s method to the data of Mormon Studies.
Dialogue 46.2 (Spring 2016): 1–39 Blythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.