<i>Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247</i><br> Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
[…] required a great deal of welfare activity by the Presiding Bishop’s Office and the Relief Society in order to accommodate the growing numbers of rural migrants, displaced by the serious farm depression of the […]
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[…] of the professors involved. Quinn alleges that Tanner and Lee “declined to pursue the matter rigorously” in order to cover up Benson’s involvement. In fact, both apostles told the professors that they should keep […]
[…] visit the BYU campus occasionally these days, I come away feeling ill at ease at the precise order and strict controls which can be observed in the campus layout and student dress. I am […]
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[…] Drought and insect infestations were seen as trials. In Mormon landscape ecology “living right” was crucial in order to earn both God’s favor and worldly gain (165). Wright contrasts the Saints’ early idealism with […]
[…] Hyrum Andrus’s little 1965 book on Mormonism and conservative politics, in which the author posits that, “in order to meet the problems that currently confront them, Latter-day Saints are bound by that which they […]
Snow falling into the pond leaves you weak with its metaphor of sadness, as though all that makes you could be instantly broken down,
[…] to hold those who cannot hold on by themselves. Another common Japanese trait, docility and respect for order and authority has presented the church with a dilemma. When the question was raised about why […]