[…] a return to the Porfiriato was impossible, a new paradigm replaced the old emphasis on privilege and order. Key Mormon leaders experienced what Michael Walzer has called the “ideology of transition,” where heightened awareness […]
[…] fortunes and mis fortunes of the characters, etc. One enters a fictive world, a narrative world, in order to feel and experience things one would never otherwise experience. We now recognize, as Aristotle did, […]
[…] all, by the power of God!. . . He was very flippant, talking fast and loud, in order that others could not interpose an opinion counter to him. Every idea that he advanced, he […]
[…] to note critics feared not only sex and violence, but also any threat to the established social order. Mack Sennett’s Key stone films depicted all manner of social chaos. The early Marx Brothers’ films, […]
[…] Knights Templar. The Book of Mormon, as Forsberg reads it, is a coded blueprint for this Masonic order. Forsberg also discovers in the Book of Mormon an ambitious plan, never initiated, to achieve racial […]
Notation in Time Valerie Atkisson, an LDS artist whose installations and sculpture have been the increasing focus of exhibitions in New York and in the West, created original artworks for Mormoniana (Mormon Artists Group […]
[…] explanation of my title. It may seem odd that I would restrict my focus to “Mormonism in the West” in an era in which everything has gone global. The LDS Church is a worldwide […]
[…] Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way for the Mormon Church to withdraw its opposition to same-sex marriage, at least as it […]
[…] There.” [14] Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (Yale University Press, 1979). [15] Online Etymological Dictionary, s.v. “crone,” https://www.etymonline.com/word/crone. [16] Clarissa Pinkola Estés, The Dangerous Old Woman Series: Myths and […]
The question of whether or not Joseph Smith participated in the translation of the Book of Mormon as an actual translator, or merely as a transcriber, remains a point of debate in Mormon […]