The policy of recording patriarchal blessings, copies of which are deposited in the office of the LDS Church Historian, affords a valuable picture of cultural change in the church, perhaps reflective of changes […]
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Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 15–40 It would seem that Mormons who have believed for over a hundred years in the real existence of the Goddess, the Mother in Heaven, should be far ahead of […]
[…] in 1815, said he knew the location of three holes in the area which the Smiths worked.[ 6] The combined testimony from area residents, which is examined in detail below, identifies six specific locations […]
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[…] Secularization is an observable but more complicated process, which we will see for the Dutch case in order to place Mormonism in the secularizing religious landscape there. Secularization in Western Europe: The Crumbling of […]