Author Richard E. Bennet describes his book as: . .. not so much a study of the train or of the trek, but of a religious exodus of one of the 19th century’s most […]
[…] apostles living, not dead, Gonzales applied his inherited love of the sacred object to his new religious world, and from it drew the moral capital to found the Latter-Day Reliquariat. Jesus helped in the […]
[…] learning how to cope with invited diversity. Ironic though it might be, Salt Lake City’s Olympic motto—”The World is Welcome Here”—is a reflection of Mormonism’s shift from an exclusive to an inclusive institution. These […]
[…] “created a community. . .in discovery” (p. 169). Affirming that art and nature teach us that “The world is holy. . . .All life is holy” (p. 147), Leap is, then, an act of […]
During the 1830’s John Whitmer wrote, in connection with the ancient Egyptian records purchased by the church in July 1835 from Michael H. Chandler,
[…] 171). She’s traveling through stern country dressed as a man and riding a horse in a north/south/up-and-down-the-territory search for her stolen gray mare Vittick, the “finest-blooded horse she had ever owned, and due to […]
[…] even its constitutional order. The Mormon Question portrays a period of water shed change in the constitutional world of American religion when the ante bellum ordering of law and religion was abandoned for the […]
[…] in. . .[thus]. . .careful readers can still grow morally by being forced to decide in the world of the literary novel” (p. 9). Ultimately, Bennion calls for a balanced narrative diet, and that […]
He watches Elain’s buttocks, the tan shorts browned at the seat, as she walks briskly ahead of him on the narrow trail. Her dirty orange day pack bounces on her back, the leaky canteen […]
[…] regard it as a nineteenth century document: “Although Joseph Smith presented the Book of Mormon to the world as his translation of an ancient document, it is generally regarded by non-Mormons as a nineteenth-century […]