[…] revelation texts carved out a complex system of ranks, offices, jurisdictions, and judicial bodies that implicitly rejected the feminization of Protestantism, while forwarding a selective blend of biblical terminology, Book of Mormon-defined praxis, and […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 83–129 The priesthood revelation of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in […]
Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180 This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the 1850s into the 1990s.
[…] 2000s to polygamous groups also claiming the name “Mormon.”[41] Whereas the name had previously been downplayed in order to shore up Christian legitimacy, it was now being revived in response to more urgent needs […]
Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88 Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day […]
[…] exercises of the protesters’ constitutional rights to free speech.[4] Speech must, of course, catch someone’s attention in order to communicate, and it is one of the characteristics of free speech that the content of […]
The protests of 2019 and 2020 at Brigham Young University (BYU) stand out as a notable period of rupture within an otherwise doctrinally strict and culturally conventional institution. Often pulling up to three […]
[…] “United States a Christian nation” founded by “Christian men.”[10] For Hoover, this meant that the country’s natural order was biblical, meaning that it was white, Christian, patriarchal, heteronormative, and authoritarian—the essence of what scholars […]
[…] twenty-first century are unable to access these earlier understandings of pregnancy because the way we understand pregnancy has changed as a result of debates over the criminalization of abortion and the development of ultrasound technology.
[…] for administering the laws and policies of the church as approved by its World Conferences (Rules of order 10-12, WCR 861). These two simple statements define a dynamic relationship which is far from simple, […]