[…] We continue to cherish our peculiarities as ways of emphasizing that exclusive claim, even as we cringe over what outsiders make of those peculiarities and try to gloss over them whenever we are confronted […]
[…] function as women in the Church—not all of them, of course, but many of those who come to me and talk to me. I just keep wondering, “How did they get to that point […]
Many examples of missionary journals are available from early days of the Church. (See, for example, the diaries collected in Brigham Young University’s online archive collection http://lib.byu.edu/digital/mmd/). In reading through them, one finds that they […]
[…] band, each marked La Pietà, 1/21/01 in permanent marker. The recording itself is perfectly legal; I arranged for it with an ebullient phone contact at NPR’s “Performance Today,” along with recordings of several other […]
[…] Marguerite, there is little to keep young adult women invested. If temple marriage represents the first major buy-in to full adult Church membership for young adult women, as it has for most LDS women […]
[…] the religious space. A major debate arose within ritual theory between Jonathan Z. Smith[5] and Ronald Grimes[ 6] on the primacy of place versus the dominance of ritual. Smith holds that “sacrality is, above […]
The way he leaves a banana-mayo sandwich on the counter. His special blend of applesauce with too much cinnamon brims over a white glass bowl. The scratchy blue-and-green-car sheets left folded on the hide-a-bed.
[…] crusade” against the Church. All of the articles were written by prominent muckraking journalists who sought both to identify church practices that needed to be reformed and to sell magazines by presenting their critiques […]
[…] the sanctuary. One summer, while outside Washington, D.C., on a college internship, I walked across the street to church. When I opened the door and went inside, I saw only black people—with one prominent […]
[…] experience is common, the message useful, and such stories fit neatly within the narrative tradition (see chapter 3). Stories where people initially ignore the prompting only to finally listen are also common. This pattern […]