[…] known. The appearance of a new religious or social movement, like nineteenth century Mormonism, challenges the normative order of the host society. This challenge will be the more serious, of course, the more militant […]
[…] of their debate was a broader European discussion about the nature of language. In his book The Order of Things (New York: Vintage, 1973), Michel Foucault points out that prior to the eighteenth century, […]
[…] no distinctions between the wild and the domestic. Village, fields, and mesa-studded plains belonged to the same order of being. In Snowflake I knew the source of every necessary thing. Behind each house were […]
[…] a soul which is often distracted should come to understand this truth and to find that, in order to speak to its Eternal Father and to take delight in Him, it has no need […]
Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 15–38 Bradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.
[…] to mention shoveling my “organized” disarray of papers and books into a box in the bedroom in order to make the apartment presentable. Tommy kept withdrawing from classes and wheeling and dealing with old […]
[…] for the next box free. She bought about fifty boxes (with her food stamps, of course) in order to get another fifty free boxes. She gave everyone—including me—a few boxes, which I was glad to […]
[…] 23.3 (Fall 1990): 65–82 Evidence from Mormon women’s journals, diaries, and meeting minutes tells us that from the 1840s until as recently as the 1930s, LDS women served their families, each other, and the […]
[…] law of thermodynamics, explained in Mayer’s and Helmholtz’s conservation of energy law, belong to this category. In order to assert the truthfulness of any scientific claim, however, one must look to the idea of […]
This dialogue of anguished questioning and consolation has an intensely personal meaning to me. The 1980s were a decade that severely tested my faith in Heavenly Father and my commitment to the Church. Whatever […]