The Mormons and the Ghost Dance
April 17, 2018[…] spoke in our language, instructed us and told us what to do, and we have come in order to comply with his requirements’ ” (JD 17:299-300). This early Ghost Dance contained all of the […]
[…] spoke in our language, instructed us and told us what to do, and we have come in order to comply with his requirements’ ” (JD 17:299-300). This early Ghost Dance contained all of the […]
Thoreau wrote in the beginning of Walden, “I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.” […]
[…] are made on a reader of current fiction. The book is divided into two parts, entitled “The Order of Words” and “The Order of Types.” Part one contains chapters dealing with language, myth, metaphor, […]
[…] anthropologist studying a tiny, distant, quasi-Mormon group, places within this context Maurice Glendenning’s (founder of the Aaronic Order) conversations with the Angel Elias, the increasing conservatism of the Mormon church in the twentieth century, […]
[…] her adult life with her husband, Henry Stark, a research chemist. Adoptive parents of three, they nurtured the Delaware Branch from its ecclesiastical preexistence until it became the Delaware Stake in 1974, only five […]
Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 44–58 Driggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
[…] as possible to discover what differences if any nearly a quarter of a century has made. In order to cover a wide range of people in the survey, the help of four associates was […]
[…] Staheli. By 1874 he had become something of a community leader in the introduction of the United Order of Enoch and presumably followed the lead of Bishop Edward Bunker in making a total commitment. […]
Dialogue 27.1 (Spring 1994): 109–123 My own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual […]
Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97 For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning […]