Illustrated Periodical Images of Mormons, 1850-1860
April 26, 2018Image history—how the Mormons were viewed by others—has been a fruitful approach used by several historians during the past decade.
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Halldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land
April 25, 2018[…] pen into a weapon against social injustice. His stark masterpieces Salka Valka (1931-32), Independent People (1934) and World Light (1937-40) depict the plight of defenseless and abject people struggling indomitably against indifferent nature and […]
Art and the Church: or “The Truths of Smoother”
April 22, 2018[…] arts. Old Nick had circled some passages in a bright red magic marker. I quote: In our world, there have risen brilliant stars in drama, music, literature, sculpture, painting, science, and all the graces. […]
“Moonbeams From a Larger Lunacy”: Poetry in the Reorganization
April 19, 2018Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31 This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and […]
Making “The Good” Good for Something: A Direction for Mormon Literature
April 18, 2018[…] of published works in the field of Mormon literature today consists of cliches borrowed from the larger world of bad literature. This cheap and easy fiction, the pretty romances, the cute tales of cute […]
Life in Zion after Conversion: Hazed or Hailed?: Beached on the Wasatch Front: Probing the Us and Them Paradigm
April 15, 2018[…] — the stigma of lesser status among converts. Sadly, this story counters the hope that a certain world view legitimized by various Church leaders and surviving somehow into the early seventies had, by the […]
Making Sense of Suffering
April 12, 2018[…] that the faith of the community survives, that they are able to go on believing in the world and the value of prayer, even when they have learned that this is a world where […]
Strong Like Water
April 10, 2018[…] faith. It is no longer beyond her, as it was before her conversion, to consider the spirit world viable, the distance between mortals and their predecessors, small. It is something she sometimes hopes for, […]
Towards 2000: Mormonism in Australia
April 6, 2018[…] population. Until recently I subscribed to the optimistic view. I witnessed the phenomenal growth during the post- World War II decades as member ship figures increased by 2,000 percent in forty years; the Australian […]
Reinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as Harbinger of the Future?
April 6, 2018[…] international gospel is increasingly lived locally by individuals trying to make sense out of a globally interconnected world. In the next century claims of an ethnic Mormon identity will continue to be made by […]