In July 1830, just three months after the formal organization of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith dictated a revelation that promised, “in whatsoever place ye shall enter in & they receive you not in […]
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40 In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
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[…] died away when I found myself reading proof for the Deseret News. A few months later the world of letters opened one of its tiny corridors and allowed me to enter as a cub […]
[…] any traditional society under the stress of acculturation, attempting the task of, in Peter Berger’s phrase, “ world maintenance” while trying to define a new twentieth-century Mormonism within an increasingly pluralistic society. Under these […]
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Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s 1984, and Vonnegut’s Player Piano all envision a world where the system—big bureaucracy, big government, corporations, changing technology, or a mix of these—achieves total, albeit benign, control. The individual […]
[…] relativity, quantum theory is at least as funda mental and has far more applications in the “real” world. Quantum theory essentially tells us that our whole notion of the universe as a collection of […]
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