The emerging field of whiteness studies in the US asks some provocative questions: How do outsiders lay claim to citizenship? How do minorities shed their image as un-American? How do they, in other […]
[…] the definition of Mormon womanhood, it seems to me that the boundaries of that community have shifted over the past almost two hundred years from being initially proscribed by the institution, in the early […]
Dialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 75–88 Probably the most destabilizing piece of historical information most Mormons come across is Joseph Smith’s polygamy.
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 1–24 The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or […]
[…] than the sociologist Thomas F. O’Dea.[1] But unlike others who are concerned about the present crisis in order to accommodate themselves to it or in order to forestall any threatening confrontation with it, O’Dea […]
Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 46–58 Since around the time as the martyrdom, Joseph Smith has been compared to Muhammad who was the founder of Islam. Green and Goldrup presents evidence for how Islam and […]
[…] or through the operation of unjust laws; but their protests should be offered in legal and proper order. The saints have practically demonstrated their acceptance of the doctrine that it is better to suffer […]
Dialogue 8.3 (Winter 1973): 11 – 72 The subject of Pythagoreanism is so controversial and loaded with uncertainties that what follows should be considered as speculation and suggestion for future research.
[…] the population of the territory should be about evenly divided between the two great national parties in order that Utah might be favored of both parties, sought for and petted and at last secure […]
We Latter-day Saints not only declare that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired but also think of ourselves as standing ready to make a prophesied defense, perhaps even a rescue, of […]