The Changing Image of Mormonism
May 3, 2018The ultimate fate of American minorities is to become tourist attractions. . . . But the tourist boom means the same thing in Utah that it means in Vermont, the same thing it […]
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Nostrums in the Newsroom
April 26, 2018[…] ivory tower isolationism and with Afghanistanism (the writing of strong, confident editorial solutions to problems half a world away, while hewing a safely vague line on local issues). These charges had some basis in […]
Stealing the Reaper’s Grim: The Challenge of Dying Well
March 29, 2018[…] infant brother, after only one day of life, succumbed to respiratory failure. I have few memories of the viewing, but do recall the delicate blue veins on the side of his infant scalp. There […]
Seeking a “Second Harvest”: Controlling the Costs of LDS Membership in Europe
March 19, 2018[…] we see a convergence in predictions between apostles and sociologists, though, to be sure, this is not the first prediction from Rodney Stark that has proved pleasing to the LDS leadership. Yet, for today’s […]
What is Mormon Cinema? Defining the Genre
March 17, 2018[…] 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 Mormonism; at present […]
A Uniform and Common Recollection: Joseph Smith’s Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002
March 27, 2018Historians have long believed that history does not consist simply of recounting the past according to the Rankean ideal of telling it “as it really was.” The process of researching, selecting, and emplotting historical […]
Embraced by the Church? Betty Eadie, Near-Death Experiences, and Mormonism
April 4, 2018[…] possibly that we could get in touch with our deceased loved ones now residing in the spirit world. Moody himself started mentioning contacts with the dead through the ancient technique of scrying in a […]
Joseph Fielding Smith’s Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President
November 11, 2022<i>Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2021): 1–76</i><br> Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s […]
Mexicans, Tourism, and Book of Mormon Geography
October 26, 2018<i>Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88</i><br>Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day Saints […]
Why the King James Version?: From the Common to the Official Bible of Mormonism
April 15, 2018[…] at the School of the Prophets in Provo voiced the Church’s stand against the new revision: “the world does not want this . . . they are satisfied with the King James translation”; “The […]