[…] talents as well as the honors and rewards those talents could justly claim from an all-too-frequently indifferent world. Each was a supreme egotist, steeped in his own self-importance, who was convinced of his right […]
[…] Mary Ann Hamilton, mother and daughter, are nineteenth-century Mormon women whose romantic dreams are serially shattered during the forty years spanned in this novel, a story, hopes its author, that “has something to say […]
[…] these themes. The book also offers well-informed assessments of the practical difficulties facing the Church in its world-wide mission. Essays by David M. Kennedy and Soren F. Cox detail this challenge from their respective […]
[…] Dam Disaster: Implications for Social Work Education. D.S.W., University of Utah, 1977. Utopia Collette, D. Brent. “In Search of Zion: A Description of Early Mormon Millennial Utopianism as Revealed Through the Life of Edward […]
[…] and remote period of antiquity. Neusner states, “The Jew has been taught to engage realistically in the world’s tasks, to do so with a whole heart, yet without the need or even the power, […]
[…] combines many of the traits so often associated with Mormonism: a handcart pioneer heritage, a Danish, old world charm, a seeking spirit, an observant eye. She adds to these a childlike delight in living, […]
[…] in the chauvinistic sense of zealous loyalty to one’s country in relation to other countries of the world, but in that kind of patriotism espoused by the early American revolutionaries which expresses itself in […]
This study seeks to look analytically at the reorganization of sex roles and sexual expression in three of the most controversial religious movements of nineteenth-century America—the Shakers, who practiced celibacy; the Mormons, who introduced […]
[…] themselves” (p. 110) and “Life—even a life dedicated to the Lord—is no picnic” (p. 147). A lawyer’s world is a world of precedent, but must precedent also govern so thoroughly his thinking? The Pull […]
[…] Seas performs a valuable service for most readers by gently putting them in touch with the nautical world. Sonne shows restraint in the use of specialized jargon. Helpful descriptions and illustrations identify the major […]