[…] 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 […]
[…] not? Those of men, other no. Tell us, what is this new? The first that returned.] 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 […]
Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young […]
[…] (Spring 2004): 75–94 However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the […]
In a now canonical article in 1912, “Chaucer’s Discussion of Marriage,” George Lyman Kittredge applied the term “marriage group” to a subset among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath (and her polemic and […]
Looking out of my window across my lawn, I see a red toy wheelbarrow tipped over, abandoned beside the sidewalk. Its redness is something I experience distinctly. Undeniably, I might be deceived, and there […]
[…] to Dialogue. Whoever these next Mormon intellectuals are, they are connected to digital networks, computer screens, and online discussion groups. One finds them woven into the fabric of online “threads,” moving through cyberspace with […]
[…] forward, scrutinizing him from where she sat. “Well, unlike you,” Cameron said, “We’re not in a monastic order. We actually spend our money.” Still standing near the door, unsure of what do with his […]