[…] Kirtland Temple. They explain that despite differences in religious beliefs, people can still form friendships and cooperate. 2012: Walter E. A. Van Beek, “The Temple and the Sacred: Dutch Temple Experiences” Dialogue: A Journal of […]
[…] a parting gift to the field that he loved and had given so much to build, in 2012 Mauss published his intellectual memoir, Shifting Borders and Tattered Passports: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic […]
[…] the Book of Mormon disagrees with the Universalists but also can resolve problems between the two groups. 2012: Jacob Bender, “ For All Things Must Fail”: A Post-Structural Approach to the Book of Mormon” […]
[…] archival research and as a result occasionally makes unsupported claims or factual errors. She draws upon a 2012 Salt Lake Tribune article, for example, to suggest that Robert Dockery Covington, one LDS bishop who […]
[…] them. Steven C. Harper is a professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. In 2012 Steve was appointed as the managing historian and a general editor of Saints: The Story of the […]
[…] Meredith Ray Sheets and Kendal Sheets, The Book of Mormon: Book of Lies (McLean, Va.: 1811 Press, 2012), 13–16. [6] See I. Woodbridge Riley, The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, […]
[…] approval of the Church’s General Authorities. That the old beliefs nonetheless persisted gained national attention in February 2012, when the Washington Post published an article with an explanation of the origin of the priesthood […]
[…] among Latter-day Saints but also among all God’s children! If that was not clear enough, in early 2012, the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally condemned racism, which […]
[…] Adam Miller’s wonderfully imaginative and provocative book of criticism, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology ( 2012), I stated: “At times, Miller seems as much poet as theologian. Essay after essay does what […]
Over the last few decades, universities have become the home of contemporary poetry in the United States, where nearly every major poet is also an academic. Poets, like other professors, teach classes, publish in tiered journals, sit on committees, undergo tenure review, secure grants, win prizes, attend conferences, and oversee graduate students. The result is that poetry, whatever else may be said of it, is a recognized industry of intellectual activity within university culture. It constitutes an academic discourse not unlike history or sociology.