[…] examination of writing in Mormonism is sociologically interesting not simply because it helps to “describe the social order … but because … it shapes it.” The author of the Book of Mormon addressed the […]
[…] by the president before it is accorded official status as scripture. The second conference was called to order on 26 September 1830, again at the Whitmer home, where the sacrament was administered, a number […]
[…] listen to speakers on an unseasonably beautiful winter day. But Utah’s state legislators had been up to the task. With language so raw, so full of homophobic hatred, they had called these young citizens, […]
[…] So they “killed” (repressed) their an ger and hurt, and with it a part of themselves, in order to preserve their parents’ love and care. Miller describes several kinds of defense mechanisms children may […]
[…] believe that I had called on the very day he had finished cataloguing Baer’s papers—everything was in order, available, and fresh on his mind. More recently, while searching in the presidential papers in the […]
[…] contrast, are about twice as likely as college graduates to believe that being baptized is necessary in order to know God. The two groups also view Jesus and God in quite different ways. For […]
[…] for example, in the dominant Mormon view that miracles are not divine interventions that violate the natural order, but rather result from the operation of laws with which we are currently unfamiliar: there is […]
[…] actually happened, what we lost along the way.” Writing allows us a place to put things in order. The personal essay and the autobiography both offer us room to sort out our experiences, to […]
[…] as Zion (something too apocalyptically distant, I fear, and too simplistically like a cross between the United Order and the Emerald City); rather, Mormon criticism and literature will help to discover and define Zion—to […]
<i>Dialogue 33.2 (Summer 2001):139–173</i><br>This article looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter-day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that […]