[…] religion had spent the first half of the twentieth century in a deliberate policy of assimilation with American society and was thus following the time-honored trajectory traced by such early scholars as Ernst Troeltsch […]
[…] Gospel.” “It is as much a part of the religion of American Latter-day Saints,” the LDS Church News asserted, “to accept the Constitution of the United States, and defend it, as it is to […]
[…] The common end is the enrichment of the life of the spirit; the common enemy is the market place. That the end, or at least the highest end, of religion is the enrichment of […]
[…] principles (plural marriage or organic evolution) or which involved larger political interests (dietary rules, member involvement in politics), or a combination (the League of Nations controversy). It is, I believe, at these stress points […]
[…] from Emperor Basil II of Constantinople. A renegade general had gathered an army to march on the Christian capital, and the emperor begged Prince Vladimir for an army to buttress the defense of his throne.
[…] Paper], November 7, 2006, A7. [28] Stephen Harold Riggins, “The Rhetoric of Othering,” in The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse, edited by Stephen Harold Riggins (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997), […]
[…] at Mountain Meadows (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Ronald W. Walker, a history of Mormonism’s darkest hour, is itself a history-making event. A scholarly […]
[…] United States,” Perspectives on History (Dec. 2012). [10] J. Edward Chamberlin, “From Hand to Mouth: The Postcolonial Politics of Oral and Written Traditions,” in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, edited by Marie Battiste (Vancouver: […]
[…] adverse publicity. It probably wouldn’t have been enough, however. The L.D.S. Church would have been pilloried in headlines across the country, and Governor Romney would have undoubtedly come to the defense of his Church, […]
[…] of general salvation, social inclusion, and universal civil rights. In America churches are denominations, competing in a market with other denominations, and judged by genuineness and performance.[9] The most relevant type for Western Europe […]