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- 1From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed* Max Perry Mueller [Ph.D.] Black, White, and Red: Race and the Making of the Mormon People, 1830-1880 This dissertation uses the histories and doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) as...
- 2From:The Quill (Vol. 96, Issue 1)In the United States, we are living through what many have termed a "Mormon moment." A Google search on "Mormon" yields thousands of hits of recent news stories, many of them surrounding the GOP candidacy of former...
- 3From:California History (Vol. 80, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedProposals to Combine California and Mormon Deseret as One State Many who are familiar with the history of the far western United States know of the seemingly grandiose attempt of Brigham Young and his Mormon...
- 4From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Greg ("Fritz") Umbach, "Learning to Shop in Zion: The Consumer Revolution in Great Basin Mormon Culture: 1847-1910" Mormondom 1847-1910 provides a test case for examining consumerism. Zion's rapid changes...
- 5From:Windows in Time (Vol. 18, Issue 2)Joseph Yates was a boy of seventeen when he observed the difficulty Mormon women had giving birth while travelling west on the overland trail to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ...
- 6From:Negro History Bulletin (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe lives of seven Black women who were pioneers in the American West are profiled. All had been born into the great oppression of American slavery. They lived out their lives in the west and some like Mary Pleasant and...
- 7From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 48, Issue 15)Byline: ERIC HOOVER The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has reclaimed some sensitive papers that belonged to the late historian Leonard J. Arrington, ending a two-month dispute with Utah State University....
- 8From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe rusted blue pickup skidded to a stop on the dirt road, a dust cloud like the finger of God trailing behind. The temperature was already ninety in the Southern Utah desert and would stretch into the hundreds by...
- 9From:Alberta History (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMormons practising plural marriage were heavily persecuted and prosecuted by the United States government starting in the late nineteenth century, causing hundreds of Mormons to flee their Utah homes and migrate either...
- 10From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAn important locus for mediation of a religious movement's self-definition and relationship with secular society is found in its definition of gender roles, especially in definition of ideal roles for women. Content...
- 11From:Alberta History (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPersecution was a significant factor in bringing both the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and the Japanese-Canadians to southern Alberta. It was anti-Mormon persecution in the United...
- 12From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLori G. Beaman [*] Based on data from life history interviews with 28 Latter Day Saints women, this paper considers the process of boundary negotiation on two key sites. First, how do Mormon women maintain their...
- 13From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOur first collective response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California was denial. For two days after the election there was no concession by the losing side. Then came rage, as we confronted the great design flaw...
- 14From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 76, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedON A WARM LATE JULY MORNING IN 1879, TWO YOUNG MEN, JOSEPH Standing and Rudger Clawson, walked down a country road in rural northern Georgia. Rumors had swirled in the neighborhood about these two men, both in their...
- 15From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 264)Many would like to domesticate Mormon strangeness, what Richard Mouw recently called in these pages its "ill-considered and defective elements" ("Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy," May 2016), in the hope of promoting a...
- 16From:The Qualitative Report (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedReligious young adults interpret their single experiences based on an intricate system of influences that include personal beliefs, family, religious teachings, and friendships. This qualitative study of 24...
- 17From:Human Biology (Vol. 66, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe genetic structure of human populations can be estimated from several different types of data, including migration matrices, isonymy, pedigrees, anthropometrics, and gene frequencies. The use of each type of data...
- 18From:The Qualitative Report (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe study was conducted in response to the need for an increased understanding of the aging experiences of women transitioning midlife. The purpose of the research was to explore the personal understanding of the...
- 19From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the history of the little-known polygamy exclusion in the 1891 Immigration Act. Tracing the development of this polygamy restriction in the late nineteenth century, the article shows how anxieties...
- 20From:Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed2011 Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza New Scholar Award Second-Place Winner In 2001, a group of Mormon women scripted and performed the Mormon Vagina Monologues and presented their monologues at the annual Sunstone...