Sarah M. Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate
April 17, 2018[…] Smith advised, “hold your tongues about things of no moment — a little tale will set the world on fire. At this time the truth on the guilty should not be told openly — […]
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Through a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
March 30, 2018Membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is expanding rapidly. As the church passes the ten-million member milestone, social science researchers have raised a number of important questions about the rapid […]
The Founding and the Fortieth: Reflections on the Challenge of Editing and the Promise of Dialogue
March 21, 2018[…] colleagues, how we developed a new publication over a six-year period (including our many trials and tribulations), the reaction to this enterprise, and how we transferred the journal to UCLA and created a mechanism […]
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 […]
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 […]