Nine months after Joseph Smith and his brother were assassinated by an angry mob in June 1844, Parley P. Pratt published a proclamation addressed to the Church’s large and dispersed membership to assure them […]
[…] chose a specific political conflict to guide her exploration of this transitional period in her book The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (2003). Patrick Mason focused […]
[…] Church of Latter Day Saints.” Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. 14 May 1978. Hobson, Dick. “Mormons Show How to Stock Food Shelves for Emergencies.” Norwalk (Ohio) Reflector. 7 March 1978. “Mormon Church Has Welfare Plan.” Artesia […]
Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96 A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
[…] Origins, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1982): 191-92, Joseph Smith’s probable exposure to politics: There is little reason to doubt that however the book originated, Joseph Smith must have absorbed […]
[…] strictest controls” on sexual norms, as seems to be happening nowadays.[24] Following Cohen, we may interpret the USA vs. Mormon conflict in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a typical manifestation of […]
[…] Europe. By a century later the count rose to between 150 million and 200 million.[13] The initial market for books was a thin stratum of Latin readers in Europe, but that quickly changed. When Martin […]
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For the most part, Mormons have been a socially homogeneous people. True, the initial Anglo-American stock was reinforced from time to time by immigrants from Western Europe, but these converts were quickly absorbed into […]
[…] Lake City Company of Rocky Mountain Riders, part of a series of very short motion pictures depicting American troops in the Spanish-American War. Since then thousands of films and television programs have dealt with […]