Those interested in the Mormon landscape should scan or, to use the author’s favorite verb, note this study. Whether they decide to scan it by quick inspection or careful examination will depend on how […]
General Barlow, Phillip L. “On Moonists and Mormonites.” Sunstone 4 (January/February 1979): 37-41. Kenney, Scott. “Mormonism and the Fold.” Sunstone 3 (March/April 1978): 24-25. Agriculture Bitton, Davis and Linda P. Wilcox. “Pestiferous Ironclads: The […]
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[…] intended to be. As one of the “special witnesses” of the name of Christ in all the world (D&C 107:23), his aim is to reach as wide an audience as possible, in order to […]
[…] bus; his overpowering voice drew the attention of everyone as he rambled on about Joseph Smith and World War II and the gamblers today who waste all their money at the racetracks, leaving no […]
In his History of American Socialisms (1870) John Humphrey Noyes emphasized the equal importance of revivalism and socialism to the communitarian movement. “The Revivalists,” he wrote, had for their great idea the regeneration of […]
[…] hand gestures of snubbing the nose and shooting a gun. There is a sense of violence, a breaking out of conventional images. Perhaps it also gives a sense of the revolutionary, of women who […]
[…] Good People is to express empathy and compassion and help those good people make sense of their world and their God when the bad things happen. Though he declares repeatedly that any Job needs […]
[…] sheds light on the chronological development of the Klan. Moreover, Gerlach explores the conditions prevalent in the post World War I period that led a handful of Utahns to join the secret order; provides information […]
[…] region and his tradition and found that he could not only cope but thrive in the larger world. Little wonder that I, too, decided to sample what Stanford had to offer. For A. C. […]