‘Tell Eve about the Serpent!’ A Study of the Effects of Temple Participation This presentation is a report of a qualitative study about the effects of temple participation in the lives of young adult Mormons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through interviews, this study examines these individuals’ experiences, thoughts, feelings, and insights about participating …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2001
The Evolution of Belief: Reconciling Through Faith Crises ; The Evolution of Belief: A Skeptical Sojourn
The Evolution of Belief: Reconciling Through Faith Crises ; The Evolution of Belief: A Skeptical Sojourn The faith I had as a child has changed through experience and education. I see these changes as the process of going into a crisis of faith and working my way through to the reconciliation. The result has been …
The Fourteen Articles of Faith
The Fourteen Articles of Faith Lew Wallace
Are We Grown Up Yet? Relating Across Gender Barriers
Are We Grown Up Yet? Relating Across Gender Barriers So, now that we’re adults, are we thought of as ‘boys “ and “girls,” as “ladies” and “gentlemen,” or, in an LDS context, as “brothers” and “sisters”? Or, are we more accurately men and women? This panel will discuss how labeling ourselves and each other with …
‘Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir’
‘Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir’ In this remarkable achievement, editor Lavina Fielding Anderson presents to us Lucy Mack Smith in her own voice. Through a restoration of the fourteen percent of her original dictated memoir deleted from the first printed edition in 1853, and a discussion of significant variants …
Tidying Up Loose Ends?: The November 2000 Excommunication of Margaret Toscano
Tidying Up Loose Ends?: The November 2000 Excommunication of Margaret Toscano In November 2000, Margaret Toscano’s stake president summoned her to a disciplinary council. Operating with a tightly scripted plan, he ‘proved” that she had continued to speak and publish on feminist topics even after being warned by a former stake president (who, in 1993, …
Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon? Part II: The Uses of Irony.
Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon? Part II: The Uses of Irony. The Book of Mormon is replete with examples of irony, including various kinds of classical rhetorical irony. Joseph Smith’s personal writings at the time of the publication of the Book of Mormon are almost entirely devoid of irony or even …
Why I Can’t Write my Joseph Smith Play
Why I Can’t Write my Joseph Smith Play In April of this year, I directed ten college students in a workshop production of what I called ‘The Joseph Smith Project.” It consisted of a draft of some fifteen scenes from Joseph Smith’s early life. While I think there were a few effective moments, it became …
A New ‘Lost’ Generation? The Future of Mormon Scholarship
A New ‘Lost’ Generation? The Future of Mormon Scholarship ‘Lost Generation” has been used to refer both to a generation of American expatriate writers after World War I and to a Utah/Mormon group of writer-intellectuals of the same period. The Mormon generation just after World War II has been rich in intellectual and literary accomplishments, …
How Big Is the Mormon Tent? Toward a New Understanding of What It Means To Be “Mormon” How Big Is the Mormon Tent? Toward a New Understanding of What It Means To Be “Mormon”
How Big Is the Mormon Tent? Toward a New Understanding of What It Means To Be “Mormon” How Big Is the Mormon Tent? Toward a New Understanding of What It Means To Be “Mormon” What is in a name? . . .Apparently a lot! As recent interviews and official announcements have indicated, as the Church …