Phrenology Among the Mormons
April 27, 2018[…] being an idiot as a man can be, and have any sense left to pass through the world decently; and it appeared to me that the cause of his success was the amount of […]
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Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
April 25, 2018Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 22–36 Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. […]
Benediction
April 18, 2018[…] that he wasn’t. Kevin Houston had that particular kind of self-assurance which in a secular and sophisticated world is taken as evidence of old money. In Kevin, however, whose prosperity was, in fact, nearly […]
Why Am I Here?
April 13, 2018I found this philosophical bit by Chip Janis in In the New World (1988), a little book of poems put together by young Indian students at the Pretty Eagle School and St. Charles Mission […]
Patriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
April 10, 2018The policy of recording patriarchal blessings, copies of which are deposited in the office of the LDS Church Historian, affords a valuable picture of cultural change in the church, perhaps reflective of changes […]
Shades of Gray: Sonia Johnson’s Life through Letters and Autobiography
April 5, 2018[…] particularly suburban house wives, suffered from deep discontent in the 1950s. She asserted that in the post- World War II era journalists, educators, advertisers, and social scientists lured women into the home with unrealistic […]
Researching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine
April 2, 2018[…] 265 million by 2080 and believes that Mormonism is on its way to becoming the next major world religion.[3] In view of these rising numbers, official LDS rhetoric has been increasingly recognized (both praised […]
Social Forces that Imperil the Family
March 29, 2018[…] demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual inter course has decreased so that adolescents and young adults are […]
One Hundred Eighteen Years of Attitude: The History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen
March 27, 2018[…] there was in Bremen, as in all of Germany, a great deal of missionary success from the 1920’s to the Second World War and again in two periods after the Second World War (1946-1964, 1972-1987).
“The Grandest Principle of the Gospel”: Christian Nihilism, Sanctified Activism, and Eternal Progression
March 20, 2018In February 1895, the editors of a small journal known as The Index (an obscure periodical produced by the Mutual Improvement Association of Salt Lake City’s Twentieth Ward) submitted the following inquiry to ten […]