[…] media. Drawing on a narrow band of time that has been termed the “Mormon moment” (roughly 2010– 2012), Rosemary Avance, an assistant professor of media and strategic communications at Oklahoma State University, uses case […]
[…] to her son. In 2011, a new group called Understanding Same-Gender Attraction (USGA) began at BYU. USGA’s 2012 video “It Gets Better” received a lot of attention, both inside and outside the Church. I […]
[…] organized, increasing the visibility and organization of allies within the Church. Notably, it captivated public attention in 2012 when three hundred of its Latter-day Saint allies, dressed in their Sunday best, marched in the […]
[…] discourses. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Faivre, in turn, emphasizes the intellectual principles underlying esoteric thought, such as the use of symbolism, […]
[…] and the Question of Materiality, edited by Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), xv. [5] “The Constitution,” Southern Utah News (Kanab, Utah), June 4, 1987, 2. [6] “Freemen Institute […]
Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. Michael Reed’s 2012 book Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo sets out an excellent account of the uncomfortable relationship between the […]
[…] (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 136; Gananath Obeyesekere, The Awakened Ones (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 503–4; Robert Mayer, “Indian niddhi, Tibetan gter ma, Guru Chos dbang, and a Kriyātantra on Treasure […]
[…] no. 3 (2007): 201–10. [2] Russ Shafer-Landau, The Fundamentals of Ethics, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 65. [3] Shafer-Landau, Fundamentals of Ethics, 66–67. [4] For a good summary of both Divine Command Theory and […]
[…] C. Harper, Joseph Smith’s First Vision: A Guide to the Historical Accounts (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012), 1. The words are Harper’s. His reference is: Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. (Salt […]
[…] C. Harper, Joseph Smith’s First Vision: A Guide to the Historical Accounts (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012), 14–21. [14] Harper, Joseph Smith’s First Vision, 23–25. [15] Methodist also clung to sola scriptura; whatever […]