From Sacred Grove to Sacral Power Structure
April 18, 2018[…] brother Brigham is satisfied with it, I am.” I do not wish any Latter-day Saint in this world, nor in heaven, to be satisfied with anything I do, unless the Spirit of the Lord […]
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Top Kingdom: The Mormon Race for the Celestial Gates
April 14, 2018[…] but wrong, dangerous, even blasphemous. They seemed to me to represent and promote a view of the world that I am trying to overcome in myself, a view that is inimical to the gospel […]
Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century: Marketing for Miracles
April 6, 2018[…] rewards, meaning systems, relationships with deity and with departed loved ones, and so on. As in the commercial world, religious monopolies or other “restraints of trade” tend to depress entrepreneurship in the market. Thus in […]
Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told: Popular Literature as Scripture in Antebellum America
April 4, 2018[…] associates revolution with “the inner and the outer,” referring to the righteousness of the individual and the world respectively. Captain Moroni, a Nephite commander of the same stripe as Gideon in the Old Testament, […]
The Truth, the Partial Truth, Something Like the Truth, So Help Me God
March 29, 2018In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS president […]
The LDS Sound World and Global Mormonism
March 28, 2018[…] of sound and silence. My observations here deal with the outer, open dimension of the LDS sound world, including theories about de-Protestantisation and feminisation. Also examined herein will be the institutional process of “reduce […]
Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti
March 23, 2018[…] Haiti emerges as a malleable, often paradoxical process susceptible to the barrage of influences that a postcolonial world affords. But what does such a reality signify for LDS missionaries who enter such a land […]
Loose in the Stacks: A Half-Century with the Utah War and Its Legacy
March 21, 2018With the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through […]
The Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments as First Revealed in the Vision: Some Observations on History, Sources, and Interpretation
October 26, 2018The Vision (1832)is one of the most important revelations of the formative period of Mormon theological development, where novel and controversial doctrines of the afterlife first made their appearance.In a recent study I […]
The Mormons and the Ghost Dance
April 17, 2018[…] doctrines, and formed their own cults (Du Bois 1939, 5-13). One cult stressed the end of the world and built special earthen lodges for protection from this catastrophic event. Another cult emphasized personal visions, […]