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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Rediscovering Ancient Christianity, C. Wilfred Griggs
Rediscovering Ancient Christianity, C. Wilfred Griggs
BYU Studies Quarterly
This Distinguished Faculty Lecture at BYU argues that diverse strands in early Christianity were excised by emerging orthodox leaders and that only a new paradigm based in revelation can recapture the original gospel of Jesus Christ.
Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs And Practices Of An Ancient American People, Stephen D. Houston
Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs And Practices Of An Ancient American People, Stephen D. Houston
BYU Studies Quarterly
Though difficult to decipher, Maya religion permeated a complex ancient world with an overriding sense of the sacral nature of all things and reveals much about how those people lived and why they vanished.
Archaeometry Applied To Olmec Iron-Ore Beads, Steven E. Jones, Samuel T. Jones, David E. Jones
Archaeometry Applied To Olmec Iron-Ore Beads, Steven E. Jones, Samuel T. Jones, David E. Jones
BYU Studies Quarterly
Modern research tools reveal the curious workmanship used in the ancient drilling of small beads found at archaeological digs in Mesoamerica.
Zorastrianism And Its Earthly Tenure, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Zorastrianism And Its Earthly Tenure, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Douglas Thayer's Mr. Wahlquist In Yellowstone: A Mormon's Christian Response To Wilderness, Eugene England
Douglas Thayer's Mr. Wahlquist In Yellowstone: A Mormon's Christian Response To Wilderness, Eugene England
BYU Studies Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Temples Of The Ancient World: Ritual And Symbolism, Donald W. Parry
Temples Of The Ancient World: Ritual And Symbolism, Donald W. Parry
Maxwell Institute Publications
Three essays by Hugh Nibley, plus papers presented at the 1993 FARMS symposium, other important papers on the temple, a keynote address by Elder Marion D. Hanks (former president of the Salt Lake Temple), striking illustrations by Michael Lyon (who illustrated Nibley’s Temple and Cosmos)—these features and more make Temples of the Ancient World: Ritual and Symbolism one of the most significant volumes ever published on the temple. Twenty-four essays in this 1994 publication focus on the temple in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East, the New Testament, Jewish writings, and the Book of Mormon and ancient America.
Concepts In American Local History: Community In Winder, Idaho, Lorine S. Goodwin
Concepts In American Local History: Community In Winder, Idaho, Lorine S. Goodwin
Theses and Dissertations
Recently the need for a more clearly defined structural basis for American local history has become acute. Concepts used in national history often fall short of the needs of local history. As a result, both professionals and amateurs are producing a rash of community histories without the benefit of adequate guidelines.
This thesis draws together a number of concepts useful in the development of American local history as a viable academic field of study. It tests these concepts in presenting the history of community in Winder, a small, rural population set in southeastern Idaho.
Evidences Of Culture Contacts Between Polynesia And The Americas In Precolumbian Times, John L. Sorenson Sr.
Evidences Of Culture Contacts Between Polynesia And The Americas In Precolumbian Times, John L. Sorenson Sr.
Theses and Dissertations
Of the great unsettled problems of archaeology and anthropology perhaps the most hotly debated has been the relative importance of migration, diffusion, and independent invention in the origin of culture elements. The question has obvious importance, both for a proper understanding of man and culture, that ambitiously comprehensive goal of modern anthropology, and for historical reconstruction, the latter a necessary preliminary of the former.
The concern of this thesis is with culture movement in the eastern Pacific Ocean area. The Pacific area as a whole has long been the geographical center of the diffusion problem (if we may so term …