[…] Society was named for an American soldier killed by Chinese Communists ten days after the end of World War II. Philosophical heir of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and of U.S. senator Joseph […]
<i>Dialogue 18.1 (Spring 1985): 9–105</i><br> Quinn shares that even with the Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders […]
America is currently in the midst of state-by-state political activism and judicial appeals to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. In 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated one example of the related effort to […]
[…] essay provides new ways of understanding Joseph’s narrative, analyzes previously neglected issues/data, and establishes a basis for perceiving in detail what the teenage boy experienced in the religious revivalism that led to his first theophany
[…] agreed. Our mission is to bear the message of the restored gospel to the people of the world. Leave Geology, Biology Archaeology and Anthropology no one of which has to do with the salvation […]
<i>Dialogue 31.2 (Summer 1998): 1–68</i><br>Quinn shares what Mormon Fundamentalists believe. some stereotypes about them, and identfies the different groups.
There once was a time, albeit brief, when a “Negro problem” did not exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention […]
Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “<a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-genesis-of-a-churchs-stand-on-race/2012/02/22/gIQAQZXyfR_story.html”>The Genesis of a church’s stand on race</a>” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein.
<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68</i><br>Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
<i>Dialogue 57:4 (Winter 2024) 33-66 </i><br> Over the past decade, a growing and exciting body of scholarship in Mormon studies has applied critical theory to Mormon history, specifically queer and race critical theory.