THE MORMON RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: INSIGHTS AND INTERPRETATIONS FROM A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TESTIMONIES AMONG CHURCHES OF THE RESTORATION ROY JOHNSON and EUGENE KOVALENKO
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Devotional. Baring My Testimony: Adventures In An Old Court
Devotional. Baring My Testimony: Adventures In An Old Court Bearing testimony? Baring testimony? Bears and testimony? It is not a simple matter to bear testimony, let alone understand what is asked of us, and especially difficult for a child to grasp. To whom do we testify? Of what do we testify? Why must everyone testify? …
Marketing Research And The Book Of Mormon
Marketing Research And The Book Of Mormon This presentation reports the results of a means/end market research survey concerning the Book of Mormon. What did the survey reveal to be the underlying values Latter-day Saints bring to their reading of the Book of Mormon? What are the “product features” in the Book of Mormon that …
In Memoriam: Leslie Norris Among The Mormons
In Memoriam: Leslie Norris Among The Mormons Leslie Norris was a poet of international repute, originally from Wales, whose unexpected death on 6 April 2006 (an auspicious date for Mormonism) has saddened his broad circle of friends. He was poet in residence for several years in BYU’s English Department. Though he never joined the LDS …
The Yoga Of Christ
The Yoga Of Christ The word yoga is related to the English word yoke. Yoga is the union of body, mind, and spirit within an individual and then the union of the individual with the Divine. This certainly seems consistent with the message and life of Christ. What did Jesus mean when he said, “Take …
Speaking Faith, Speaking Dogma: Choosing Language That Builds Rather Than Stifles Testimony
We’re all familiar with the humorous aspects of Mormonspeak. But it has a negative side in the way that it frequently leads us to slip into conventional patterns that discourage thought and encourage conformity. By selecting active, precise, and living language, we can force ourselves to question our assumptions, challenge our faith, and ultimately elevate …
PRELUDE TO CLAREMONT: ‘FAITHFUL SCHOLARSHIP’ AND THE MAINSTREAMING OF MORMON STUDIES
PRELUDE TO CLAREMONT: ‘FAITHFUL SCHOLARSHIP’ AND THE MAINSTREAMING OF MORMON STUDIES As Mormon studies emerges at Claremont, it will be shaped by negotiation among various interests. The most important set of LDS interests is represented by ‘faithful scholarship,’ which has come to set the standard of acceptable scholarship about Mormonism for many Latter-day Saints poised …
MORMON CINEMA AT FIVE: A HEALTH REPORT
MORMON CINEMA AT FIVE: A HEALTH REPORT Although Mormons have been a topic for films as early as 1905, and LDS filmmakers have been telling quintessential Mormon stories since the 1930s, Richard Dutcher’s films God’s Army (2000) and Brigham City (2001) mark what some consider to be the birth of ‘Mormon Cinema’, feature-length fiction films …
THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: ONE WOMAN’S PRIMER IN FEMINIST GENEALOGY
While DNA science challenges such Mormon beliefs as Israelite ancestry for Native Americans, it promises fresh pursuits for genealogists. Particularly suggestive is our ability, notably publicized by Cambridge geneticist Bryan Sykes’s Seven Daughters of Eve, to track mitochondrial DNA mutations to seven European “clan mothers”, and beyond them, to African ancestresses. Traditionally overshadowed by surname-conferring …
How Much Does It Matter If The Book Of Mormon Is True?
What exactly are the consequences in assuming that the Book of Mormon is “true”? Does it matter if it is not? What are the strengths and weaknesses of arguments for a compromise? If the only real test for Book of Mormon historicity lies in the nebulous realm of spiritual authentication, how much of the discursive …