Susanna Morrill: I’d like to start the conversation by asking four framing questions relating to the issue of religious experience: First, are “abundant events” proper subjects of study for historians of religion? Second, how […]
[…] thought was an amazing quote from Richard Nixon, where he says, “I can take some satisfaction from the fact that this was probably the last national election in which the religious issue will be […]
[…] merely a “structured sample of reality” where science empowers their message. Alternatively, museums might encourage a pseudo-religious experience of ritually “attending” them— factors, some critics observe, that reduce the probability of resistant readings by patrons.
Early Mormonism was thoroughly premillennial. The saints watched for latter-day signs of the times in anticipation of Jesus Christ’s imminent return, spoke of them in sermons, and published them in newspapers. The righteous would […]
[…] a former athlete, she knows from experience as well as from her reading has connections to the world of sport. It occurs to me, as she talks about it, that here is another useful […]
Most mainstream American Christian congregations sing hymns in unison. But The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long favored congregational part-singing. Nevertheless, a small but vigorous LDS constituency in the past thirty […]
[…] geology. Both of these discpilines challenged simplistic readings of the Biblical timeline and creation story, suggesting the world and the human species was much older than the bible indicated. When this was coupled with […]
[…] The book has appeared in many languages, among which are all the big languages of the western world, such as English, French, Spanish, and German.[3] Sometimes gently satiric and sometimes ironically owlish in its […]
[…] and get married, or I might not. Either way would be fine. I didn’t need to have the same life path as all of my friends and family. I realized that I am the […]
[…] forms of our concepts of him and the inflexible forms of our response to him in the world; unable to let our confidence wax strong in his presence through the feeling that our lives […]