It has been a little over twenty-five years since In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith was published, in late 1997. After publishing my book, I hoped that additional primary documents would […]
[…] just ask, Dr. West, is about your general experience or even your introduction to Mormonism or to our world. I do know that Chase N. Peterson was the president of the University of Utah and there […]
[…] 5 or 6 percent a year. This prompted one sociologist to predict that Mormonism would be the world’s next major religion, with “a worldwide following comparable to that of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, [and] Hinduism.”[7] […]
[…] I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming Mormons between eighteen and forty-four years old living in various regions of the United States as part of my graduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York
[…] names, names, and legitimacy in the Latter-day Saint context extends back to the early history of the World Wide Web. In this section, I show how the development of lds.org and mormon.org illustrate this […]
[…] it, with Darius Gray. I don’t know when it was done, but it was on Blacks and the priesthood. Greg: Thank you. Egide: I want to thank you for all the work that you […]
The text the bishop suggested for my remarks today comes from Doctrine and Covenants 45:66: “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place […]
Dialogue 1.3 (Fall 1966): 29–46 In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet’s death, which is when […]
[…] for the Arab nations (including Palestine) in return for Arab sup port against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.[2] The real issue separating the Arabs and the Israelis, is largely a function of […]
[…] and larger around the middle, I began to feel more and more like Littlechap in “Stop the World”: L*U*M*B*E*R*E*D. I had visions of long days in small apartments full of diapers, dishes, and slow […]