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. 4. The Aaronic Order in the Nevada desert. 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.
Dialogue 55.3 (Fall 2022): 75-106 As a contribution to the larger project of examining the King James Bible’s influence on The Book of Mormon, this essay focuses on several aspects of the problem of […]
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 45–76 A Feminist Family Home Evening discussion with Maxine Hanks regarding women in the church as seen through temple theology.
[…] by wonderful Mormon folk in 1980s Davis County, Utah. I was finding my way to faith in the miserable, wet poverty of southern Louisiana, but it was a faith inflected by my lifelong skepticism […]