[…] his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and […]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] an interim role. Like Luther, Hut gave a higher priority to the written Word in the divine order of grace and salvation. Yet, like Denck, he emphasized the whisperings of the Spirit, the necessity of […]
[…] absence of the Native American participants’ own perspectives. This study was designed to address that deficit. In order to understand Placement’s consequences, I gathered twenty-two participant oral histories during several weeks of fieldwork on […]
Editing William Clayton, James B. Allen A Response: The Politics of Mormon History, George D. Smith A Reply, James B. Allen A Rejoinder, George D. Smith
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[…] Seco, but in the whole country before leaving for the United States. He told Mother that, in order to keep the church running, men were necessary—men like Brother Wilson, who worked at the American […]
In the decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the […]