[…] Latter-day Saints regularly publishes figures representing Church membership. If nowhere else they appear in the biennial Deseret News Church Almanac. These figures are widely cited by the Church, members, scholars, and the press. As […]
[…] other people with the same idea? And here in Palo Alto? Needless to say, soon after Diane’s news, we contacted Gene Eng land, and he proposed a meeting at another graduate student’s apartment in […]
[…] to those broader scholarly questions. As a result, we are learning that Mormonism is important to the American (and broader) experience in ways we had never imagined. Its significance goes beyond its supposed embodiment […]
In Richard Dutcher’s latest film Falling, a rich scene revealing the subtle conflict between the demands of commerce and artistic endeavor is focused around the word marrow. The protagonist, lapsed Mormon Eric Boyle, a […]
[…] Smith’s heaven consisted of one boundless family of eternal intelligences—“a perfect chain from Father Adam to his latest posterity.”This lineage was crucial to Mormon salvation, as in Smith’s 1842 revelation to Newel Whitney, promising […]
[…] noticing some troubling gaps between Mormonism’s unique doctrine and history, which have challenged the anthropocentrism of mainstream American attitudes and behaviors toward the nonhuman world in a number of important ways, and the current […]
[…] give us a sense of how you got interested in folklore? Mould: I became interested in Native American narrative, especially in the archetypal figure of the trickster, as an undergraduate student. I studied this […]
Notes and comments are not merely short articles or long letters; they are varied, informal glimpses of Mormon thought and life. The Editors welcome news, profiles, opinions, accounts, speeches and other items that seem appropriate.
[…] the widow, and the fatherless, and the motherless and believes in trying to ensure that the good news can be made available all around the world, in every corner of the globe because of […]
[…] a tool of retrenchment. In this same vein, Brooks pointedly observes: “almost without exception, when predominantly white American Christianities have institutionalized, because institutionalization often requires the physical and social capital that whiteness can offer […]