[…] came The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Bur ton. This biography of the eccentric nineteenth-century English explorer was published in 1967. While researching and writing an introduction for a new edition of […]
[…] context of Aaron, one would expect a reference to D. Michael Quinn’s Early Mormonism and the Magic World View[4] to buttress the assertion that the original text referred to a divining rod. (Marquardt is […]
[…] moment of candor, she writes, “Never does my mind revert to the scenes enacted on that ‘isolated world’ but I remember the patter of those little feet, and can see the golden child in […]
[…] ways to expand. One central question remains: has Eliason justified the title which calls Mormonism “an American World Religion”? This returns us to the volume’s theme of where Mormonism has been (its history in […]
I am twenty-one years old. I lie in the golden light of a Korean September afternoon. I have curled myself up on the musty, avocado-skinned sofa that occupies a large corner of the living […]
[…] had last spoken to her. I secretly envied those with real grief. I was jealous of that world-worn, gray-lined look. The crying, pale face showed up grieving in my mirror when my Grandfather Nielson […]
[…] on the struggle with sin. Harrell is seriously engaged in trying to depict the difficulties of this world without worrying about providing moral guidance. His book is a stark testimony of life in the […]
[…] today; if one googles for it, one gets not only the Mormon hymn “The Day Dawn Is Breaking,” but also various websites for Gothic clothing and music, as well as links to the American […]
[…] LDS history and replace them with myths of Mormon moral superiority to all other peoples in the world. There is nothing surprising about this; in fact, today it seems more like a caricature or […]
[…] with President Kimball’s emphasis on missionary work and the Church’s responsibility to take the gospel to the world, the “decisive” shift in American attitudes against racism with the accompanying perception of “Mormons as bigots,” […]