[…] part of the definition. By contrast, sects and nonmainline religions are more culture bound, less transportable across national boundaries. For example, Shinto, so closely bound to Japanese culture, will never reach the mainline proportions […]
[…] to the recipient. The researcher, therefore, must access blessings recorded in journals, those appearing in other manuscripts, and any blessings which individuals may choose to release for examination and publication. All of the 744 […]
[…] the restoration of the priesthood. I accepted. At the time I was reading Richard Bushman’s Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism with great interest and a heightened sense of the adventure of the […]
[…] (Fall 1999):90–103 To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. […]
[…] of Jerusalem. But whereas Matthew and the other Synoptics (Mark and Luke) focused blame on the Jewish national leaders for the death of Christ, by the time John was written, prob ably in the […]
[…] who is called to preach repentance to his people. He succeeds so well they are called “Zion” and are translated into heaven. Then, despite his obviously great knowledge of the Gospel, Enoch has an […]
[…] Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young and stands as a field white and ready to harvest.
In September of 1993 Lavina Fielding Anderson was excommunicated from the LDS church for documenting and publishing instances of the church’s punishing treatment of Mormon intellectuals and feminists, as well as other instances of […]
In his book Power and Innocence, Rollo May defines power as “the ability to cause or prevent change.” May identifies five kinds of power: exploitative, “the simplest and, humanly speaking, most destructive kind of […]
[…] often called Friends, have several core “testimonies” that can be remembered by the mnemonic “SPICE”—Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality. Each of these interrelated testimonies is essential to our identity as Friends, but we are […]