[…] 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 […]
[…] 123–136</i><br> Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great […]
[…] of religious sentiment and spirituality due to the recognition that God is a God of law, of order, of rational behavior, rather than a deity of mystery, of transcendent and capricious whims. At the […]
In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, the […]
[…] tuvimos? Los de hombres, otro no. Dinos, ique es este nuevo? El primero que volvio. In order to squeeze in enough syllables to correct the grammatical problems here, the revisers had to alter […]
During the worst economic depression in the history of the United States up to 1929, that of the 1890’s, the highest leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with several […]