[…] clearly in mainstream media descriptions of the pre-1978 priesthood ban. “Blacks could not be priests,” stated a 2012 Atlantic article,[25] and this exact wording appears in numerous other articles from various publications. Most non-Mormons […]
[…] as well as Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012). [3] I discuss the importance of practicing religion in Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in […]
[…] overwhelmingly white, its messengers elected Fred Luter, a descendant of slaves, as its Black first president in 2012.[8] And in 2022, Willie McLaurin, a Black pastor from Tennessee, was named interim president and CEO […]
[…] 162–67; Margaret Barker, The Mother of the Lord, Volume 1: The Lady in the Temple (London: Bloomsbury, 2012), 118–26. [21] For a list of forty-five divine qualities and names for the Mother God that […]
[…] a quandary for such practitioners accustomed to challenging the status quo. In the American Historical Association’s December 2012 Perspectives newsletter, Oxford historian Pekka Hämäläinen pondered on the future of Native American history. He warned […]
[…] was engaging terms, ideas, and boundaries that a decade earlier were dangerous or forbidden for feminists. In 2012, another boundary shifted when a member of the “September Six” returned to the Church. Like the […]
[…] Saint Larry J. Echo Hawk, writing in 1975—decades before he served as a General Authority Seventy ( 2012–2018) in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—objected to the expectation that Christianized Indigenous bodies […]
[…] the Anti-Christ? The Birth of Fundamentalism Antiliberlism in a Global Age,” Journal of American History 98, no. 4 ( 2012): 1052–74; Daniel Vaca, Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America (Harvard University Press, […]
The Winter 2012 issue is up and begins with two path-breaking articles—Stephen Taysom frames a discussion of the gold plates in terms of Robert Orsi’s theory of “abundant events,” and Walter Van Beek uses […]
[…] II. In Matthew Bowman, The Mormon People: The Making of An American Faith (New York: Random House, 2012), 200. [5] For three hagiographic accounts of Smith, see Joseph F. McConkie, True and Faithful: The […]