[…] 1907 when the First Presidency called him to the Council of Twelve Apostles. Ivins was active in politics and business. In a state generally dominated by Republican Senator Reed Smoot’s “Federal Bunch,” he was […]
[…] 2013.[55] Historical works of art in Church meetinghouses were documented, appraised for their significance, and assessed a market value. Surveyor’s reports were submitted to the committee and filed in museum records by their type […]
Professor Clark’s “Art, Religion, and the Market Place” takes us into a very interesting world in which Art and Religion (the good guys) are engaged in a deathly struggle with the Market Place (the […]
[…] however, the missionaries soon embraced wholeheartedly other nationalities in Argentina—Italians, Spaniards and, of course, the old Argentinian stock itself. Thus the national population, as well as many immigrant nationalities, have contributed strong and faithful members […]
[…] ourselves and that this is not only desirable, but inevitable. As a result of this culturo-centricism many American Mormons take too literally the words of Paul to the Ephesians, “Therefore ye are no more […]
[…] other religious “firms” to meet the needs or tastes of as large a segment of the “ market” as possible. Some products are mundane in nature, such as social and/or economic support, community feeling, […]
[…] was more often drawn by the non-Mormons than by the Mormons.”[40] With the decreased salience of geography, politics, or social distance in the second half of the century, “many Mormons have found it necessary […]
[…] [35] Heber J. Grant Diary, 17 May 1888, quoted in Jean Bickmore White, ed., Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in association with Smith Research […]
We will get to the violin playing. First, let’s talk about the dress. On May 17, 2015, the Mormon blogosphere erupted into controversy over the designer gown worn by dancing violinist and YouTube star Lindsey […]
[…] similar Peacemaker in Iroquois accounts to reveal the settler colonial erasure of Indigenous sovereignty undergirding the racial politics of the Book of Mormon. Throughout this essay, I feature Indigenous interpretations not simply for the […]