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2012-06-06T15:27:28+00:00

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The Illuminated Mundane

Last updated on: June 6, 2012 at 3:27 pm By Xarissa Holdaway

In Washington, DC, I didn’t have a good view of the Venus Transit. It was cloudy until sunset, so I pulled up NASA’s livestream from a telescope in Hawaii. For close to an hour, I flipped between the last tasks of work and the flickering image of a tiny dot sliding across the surface of a giant, shaggy circle. The light from the window, still warm and gray and pink at 7:30, hurt my eyes when I looked away from... Read more

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2012-05-31T21:28:37+00:00

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A Review of the Cover of Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven: A story of violent faith.

Last updated on: May 31, 2012 at 9:28 pm By Matthew Bowman

Author’s note: Yes, I’ve read the book. Canaan Mountain is almost unbearably symbolic. (more…) Read more

2012-05-30T05:07:47+00:00

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The Limits of Mormon Assimilation

Last updated on: May 30, 2012 at 5:07 am By Christopher Jones

As a historian of religion in the early American republic, much of my research has focused on the connections between Mormonism and Protestantism in the 19th century. I’ve made it a point to emphasize the ways in which early Mormonism was influenced by evangelical Protestantism and have even gone so far as to argue that the early history of the Latter-day Saint movement is best understood not explicitly as a radical break from evangelicalism but rather as part of the... Read more

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2012-05-29T07:36:12+00:00

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Mormon Patriotism and the Cultural Reading of Scripture

Last updated on: May 29, 2012 at 7:36 am By Benjamin Park

At the New York Review of Books blog, Garry Wills recently asked some important questions about Mormonism and the Constitution. Recalling discussions he had with an LDS student two decades ago who believed that America’s two founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were both inspired, Wills raised several provocative questions: Should every section and article of the original Constitution—including those that perpetuated slavery—be considered inspired? If the text constructed in 1787 was inspired, why did it require later amendments?... Read more

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Secularization

2012-05-29T19:05:58+00:00

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Is Mormonism Ridiculous?

Last updated on: May 29, 2012 at 7:05 pm By Taylor Petrey

In The Book of Mormon Broadway musical, the central character Elder Price sings, “I Believe…” followed by a mixed series of benign and ridiculous claims. The genius of the song is that it so perfectly performs widespread American perceptions about Mormonism in the early 21st century. Elder Price, and Mormons in general, are presented as harboring some naive and strange ideas, but in the end being good people with good intentions who might actually be able to help people. Mitt... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2012-05-23T16:29:34+00:00

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Is Mormonism ‘Bad Religion’?

Last updated on: May 23, 2012 at 4:29 pm By Ryan Tobler

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has a new book out. It’s called Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, and it’s getting attention recently as a critique of what the author says is America’s diseased religious soul. Religion in America is suffering, says Douthat, and not as many religious Americans would suspect—not from erosion by atheism or apathy. In fact, American religion (by which he essentially means Christianity) is rotting from the inside out. The traditional impulses... Read more

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Mormonism, politics, Romney

2012-05-18T20:01:20+00:00

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My Emergency Shelf

Last updated on: May 18, 2012 at 8:01 pm By Kate Holbrook

Chef James Beard is a hero of mine. His prose is clean, content-rich, and full of wry opinion. He honored history and tried to be an Everyman. Beard’s manifesto in favor of ham as party food changed me forever.[i] (more…) Read more

2012-05-14T18:54:28+00:00

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A Mormon Massacre Site and Places within a Space

Last updated on: May 14, 2012 at 6:54 pm By David Howlett

The LDS church has purchased the site of the most infamous event of the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri—the site of the Haun’s Mill Massacre. The previous owner of the site, the Community of Christ (formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), announced the sale of the historic ground in an April 3, 2012 e-mail. Originally approached by the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation about the purchase over a year ago, the Community of Christ... Read more

2012-05-09T14:42:25+00:00

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Mormonism and Public Discourse on Religion

Last updated on: May 9, 2012 at 2:42 pm By Susanna Morrill

My students love Mormonism–or, they love to talk about Mormonism, often quite critically. And it’s not just my students. Usually when I mention to someone who is not Mormon that I study Mormonism, their eyes light up and they have a story to tell me: They just heard lyrics from “The Book of Mormon” musical, they’re angry about not being able to attend their Mormon cousin’s temple wedding, they’re concerned about Romney’s ties to the LDS Church. For years I’ve... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2012-05-10T15:58:52+00:00

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Mormonism and the Dilemma of Tragedy

Last updated on: May 10, 2012 at 3:58 pm By Rachael

Mormons, it seems, are undeniably happy people. Everything from the Church-sponsored “I’m a Mormon” campaign to Broadway’s Book of Mormon musical, to recent polls about religious groups and states reporting the highest levels of well-being (Mormons come in 2nd, and Utah, 1st, respectively) [1], point to a culture that is full of robustly optimistic do-gooders. After all, Mormonism is deeply committed to the notion of happiness. The Book of Mormon teaches that “men are that they might have joy”; Joseph... Read more

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