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Our scripture study and reading often assume that the prophetic figures within the texts are in complete agreement with each other. Because of this we can fail to recognize that those authors and personalities frequently have different-and sometimes competing-views on some of the most important doctrines of the Gospel, including the nature of God, the roles of scripture and prophecy, and the Atonement. In this unique volume, fictionalized dial...

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Book Description: Doing theology is like building a comically circuitous Rube Goldberg machine: you spend your time tinkering together an unnecessarily complicated, impractical, and ingenious apparatus for doing things that are, in themselves, simple. But there is a kind of joy in theology's gratuity, there is a pleasure in its comedic machination, and ultimately-if the balloon pops, the hamster spins, the chain pulls, the bucket empties, the ...

The often-lurid and scandalous portrayals of Mormons in dime novels had consequences for the relationship between Mormons and the rest of the United States. Understanding how these stereotypes were created and first employed can help us understand many things about the way that Mormonism has always functioned in American culture.

This edition of The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl recasts the award-winning webcomic as a two-part graphic novel. With revised and previously unpublished comics, it features the familiar story that captivated thousands online, yet offers new glimpses into Enid's year-long odyssey.

Book Description: The Claremont Women's Oral History Project has collected hundreds of interviews with Mormon women of various ages, experiences, and levels of activity. These interviews record the experiences of these women in their homes and family life, their church life, and their work life, in their roles as homemakers, students, missionaries, career women, single women, converts, and disaffected members. Their stories feed into and illum...

These essays reveal how the scriptures, prophetic teachings, history, culture, rituals, and traditions of Mormonism have been, are, and can be used as warrants for a wide range of activities and attitudes from radical pacifism to legitimization of the United States' use of preemptive force against its enemies.

Book Description: There are many hotly debated issues about which many people disagree, and where common ground is hard to find. From evolution to environmentalism, war and peace to political partisanship, stem cell research to same-sex marriage, how we think about controversial issues affects how we interact as Latter-day Saints. In this volume various Latter-day Saint authors address these and other issues from differing points of view. Thou...

Book Description: For the first century of their church's existence, Mormon observers of international events studied and cheered global revolutions as a religious exercise. As believers in divine-human co-agency, many prominent Mormons saw global revolutions as providential precursors to the imminent establishment of the terrestrial kingdom of God. French Revolutionary symbolism, socialist critiques of industrialism, American Indian nationali...

Book Synopsis: This awe-inspiring book is a tribute to the perseverance of the human spirit. A House for the Most High is a groundbreaking work from beginning to end with its faithful and comprehensive documentation of the Nauvoo Temple's conception. The behind-the-scenes stories of those determined Saints involved in the great struggle to raise the sacred edifice bring a new appreciation to all readers. McBride's painstaking research now give...

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Essays explore and comment on various aspects of Mormon life and culture--from the Dreams Mines near Salem, Utah, to the challenges that Latter-day Saints of the millennial generation face today.

Mormonism was born less than 200 years ago, but in that short time it has developed into a dynamic world religious movement. The editors have assembled 16 essays addressing the substantial number of published works in the field of Mormon studies from 1950 to the present. Each essay focuses on a particular aspect of Mormonism and is careful to evenhandedly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the books under discussion.

Whipple, author of what some critics consider Mormonism's greatest novel, "The Giant Joshua, " is an enigma. Her prize-winning novel has never been out of print, and its portrayal of the founding of St. George draws on her own family history to produce its unforgettable and candid portrait of plural marriage's challenges. Hale, a personal friend, chronicles Whipple's life, nailing each insight down with thorough research in her vast but underu...

Whipple, author of what some critics consider Mormonism's greatest novel, "The Giant Joshua, " is an enigma. Her prize-winning novel has never been out of print, and its portrayal of the founding of St. George draws on her own family history to produce its unforgettable and candid portrait of plural marriage's challenges. Hale, a personal friend, chronicles Whipple's life, nailing each insight down with thorough research in her vast but underu...

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bitton's life was cut short before he could finish revisions on this collection of insightful essays about Joseph Smith, a prophet whom he also considers a hero in both classical terms and in the context of 19th-century America. This text explores images of Smith from both the devotion of believers and the hostility and skepticism of opponents.

Mormons and non-Mormons alike have their views of how polygamy was practiced by Latter-day Saints during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on records and oral histories with husbands, wives, and children of Mormon polygamous households, this study explores the diverse experiences of individual families and stereotypes about polygamy.

LDS readers should welcome any new studies about Jesus since it seems that few make the effort to read the wordy Jesus the Christ or the lengthy Mortal Messiah series. There is a dearth of significant studies about Jesus in our culture.--Kent Dunford, retired instructor, University of Utah LDS Institute of Religion.

How does the "Book of Mormon, " keystone of the LDS faith, stand up to data about DNA sequencing that puts the ancestors of modern Native Americans in northeast Asia instead of Palestine? Meldrum and Stephens examine the merits and the fallacies of DNA-based interpretations that challenge the "Book of Mormon, " providing clear guides to the science and spelling out the data's implications. 162 pp.