[…] of Lorde’s purposes is to describe how patriarchy confuses and suppresses eros’s power. Lorde says that “in order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the […]
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Join Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey as he interviews Tanner Davidson McAlister about his article, “ The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel” for our 39th episode of […]
Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 171-174 Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter-day Saints. Her unique esthetic of feminine deity offers Latter-day Saint women a trajectory for godhood—the ultimate goal of Mormon theology.
The Vision (1832)is one of the most important revelations of the formative period of Mormon theological development, where novel and controversial doctrines of the afterlife first made their appearance.In a recent study I […]
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[…] Apostles.”[1] This claim greatly excited Rigdon, as he had constantly tried and failed to establish the “ancient order of things” in Alexander Campbell’s religious movement. Rigdon was nevertheless very skeptical of Mormonism because “they […]
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[…] accepted a big wedding for the same day and would not be able to fill the branch’s order. Spencer came home from the caterer’s and went straight to his room. He lay on his […]