[…] anthropologist studying a tiny, distant, quasi–Mormon group, places within this context Maurice Glendenning’s (founder of the Aaronic Order) conversations with the Angel Elias, the increasing conservatism of the Mormon church in the twentieth century, […]
[…] Mormon covenant making through the Nauvoo, Illinois, period is described fully by anthropologist Rex Cooper.[8] The patriarchal order established by the end of the Nauvoo period emphasized the importance of creating family kingdoms presided […]
[…] a house and other improvements and stay a year. George Washington Bean, a leader in the United Order enterprise there, noted in his account that his own wife Elizabeth refused to join him in […]
[…] as possible to discover what differences if any nearly a quarter of a century has made. In order to cover a wide range of people in the survey, the help of four associates was […]
[…] Staheli. By 1874 he had become something of a community leader in the introduction of the United Order of Enoch and presumably followed the lead of Bishop Edward Bunker in making a total commitment. […]
[…] infinite, the strategies, tac tics, and doctrinal emphases of the church will also have to vary in order to achieve the right kind and degree of tension. This requires a great deal of inspiration […]
[…] 1994): 68–97 For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen -year–old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning the sacred […]
[…] examination of writing in Mormonism is sociologically interesting not simply because it helps to “describe the social order … but because … it shapes it.”[7] The author of the Book of Mormon addressed the […]
[…] by the president before it is accorded official status as scripture. The second conference was called to order on 26 September 1830, again at the Whitmer home, where the sacrament was administered, a number […]
[…] sit in Utah, largely and initially colonized by Mormons fleeing Missouri where a governor issued an extermination order inviting their slaughter. Many were. And then Nauvoo. I’ve spent nearly a decade of my life […]