"What Is It About This Place?": Truman Madsen, Religious Education, And The Mission Of Byu,
2017
Brigham Young University
"What Is It About This Place?": Truman Madsen, Religious Education, And The Mission Of Byu, Bruce C. Hafen
BYU Studies
Barnard (“Barney”) Madsen has written a readable, thoughtful, and well-informed biography about his charismatic father, Truman Madsen. Although Truman didn’t keep a conventional journal, he maintained “journal files”—“crucial journal entries or documents he preserved for his posterity.” Those files, along with Barney’s intimate and observant relationship with his father, have now yielded rich biographical resources.
No Words,
2017
Brigham Young University
No Words, Elizabeth Dodds
BYU Studies
After all these years, I’m still afraid of getting a brain aneurysm. Just a few weeks ago in church, my head started hurting, and I reached up and felt a vein throbbing on the side of my skull. I leaned over to my uncle sitting beside me and whispered, “What if it’s a brain aneurysm?” He laughed and said it wasn’t. “But how can you be sure?” I thought. Because I looked up brain aneurysms a long time ago and found out that they have no symptoms. No warnings before they hit you like an air bag. Wham. Suddenly, there’s …
Eighth Witness: The Biography Of John Whitmer,
2017
BYU-Idaho
Eighth Witness: The Biography Of John Whitmer, Kyle R. Walker
BYU Studies
Ronald E. Romig. Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer.
Independence, Mo.: John Whitmer Books, 2014.
Full Issue,
2017
Brigham Young University
Let There Be Light–,
2017
Brigham Young University
"The Little Head Stones Became Monuments": Death In The Early Samoan Mission And The Creation Of The Fagali'i Cemetery,
2017
Brigham Young University
"The Little Head Stones Became Monuments": Death In The Early Samoan Mission And The Creation Of The Fagali'i Cemetery, Reid L. Neilson, Scott D. Marianno
BYU Studies
When the call first went forth, Samoa was as far from people’s minds as the islands themselves are from the rest of the civilized world,” a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wrote from Apia in 1899. “Women were among the Gospel pioneers on these islands; what they endured, their trials and their hardships, even to parting with life itself, it is a story that today dims the eye with tears. Samoa has never been a happy home for our sisters.”
End Matter,
2017
Brigham Young University
America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, And The Presidential Election That Transformed The Nation,
2017
Sam Houston State University
America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, And The Presidential Election That Transformed The Nation, Benjamin E. Park
BYU Studies
John Bicknell. America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation.
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2015.
Birth And Calling Of The Prophet Samuel: A Literary Reading Of The Biblical Text,
2017
Brigham Young University
Birth And Calling Of The Prophet Samuel: A Literary Reading Of The Biblical Text, Steven L. Olsen
BYU Studies
Chapters 1–3 of 1 Samuel describe the miraculous origins and auspicious upbringing of the first major Hebrew prophet since Joshua, who by all measures lived centuries before Samuel. The biblical account of Samuel’s beginnings forecasts the exceptional ministry of the man who served as Israel’s last complete sovereign. By faithfully filling the crucial roles of prophet, priest, and judge, Samuel helped to transform the House of Israel from a collection of weak and often warring tribes to a relatively permanent and somewhat stable nation in the contentious ancient Middle East. Thus, Samuel is rightly considered to be one of the …
The First Fifty Years Of Relief Society,
2017
Brigham Young University
The First Fifty Years Of Relief Society, Karen Lynn Davidson
BYU Studies
Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society.
Salt Lake City: Church Historian's Press, 2016.
"An Angel Or Rather The Savior" At The Kirtland Temple Dedication: The Vision Of Frederick G. Williams,
2017
Brigham Young University
"An Angel Or Rather The Savior" At The Kirtland Temple Dedication: The Vision Of Frederick G. Williams, Frederick G. Williams
BYU Studies
At the Kirtland Temple dedication on Sunday, March 27, 1836, Presi-dent Frederick G. Williams testified that he saw a holy angel enter the temple during the opening prayer and take his seat between Joseph Smith Sr. and himself in the upper pulpits on the Melchizedek priesthood side of the room, a holy site that had just been dedicated and consecrated to the Lord earlier that morning. This study collects nine eyewitness statements regarding Williams’s vision of the heavenly personage to see if the identity of the angel as well as the purpose of his visit can be determined from their …
William B. Smith: In The Shadow Of A Prophet,
2017
Brigham Young University
William B. Smith: In The Shadow Of A Prophet, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
BYU Studies
Kyle R. Walker. William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet.
Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2015.
The Awkward State Of Utah: Coming Of Age In The Nation, 1896-1945,
2017
Brigham Young University
The Awkward State Of Utah: Coming Of Age In The Nation, 1896-1945
BYU Studies
The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896–1945, by Charles S. Peterson and Brian Q. Cannon (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015)
Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, The Bodhisattvaa, And The Mahdi,
2017
Penn State
Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, The Bodhisattvaa, And The Mahdi, Spencer L. Green
BYU Studies
Jad Hatem. Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi. Trans. Jonathon Penny.
Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2015.
The Field Is White: Harvest In The Three Counties Of England,
2017
Brigham Young University
The Field Is White: Harvest In The Three Counties Of England, Ronald E. Bartholomew
BYU Studies
Carol Wilkinson and Cynthia Doxey Green. The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England.
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2017.
Russell W. Stevenson, For The Cause Of Righteousness: A Global History Of Blacks And Mormonism, 1830-2013; Matthew L. Harris And Newell G. Bringhurst, Eds., The Mormon Church And Blacks: A Documentary History,
2017
Brigham Young University
Russell W. Stevenson, For The Cause Of Righteousness: A Global History Of Blacks And Mormonism, 1830-2013; Matthew L. Harris And Newell G. Bringhurst, Eds., The Mormon Church And Blacks: A Documentary History, Reviewed By Quincy D. Newell
Mormon Studies Review
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[Introduction To] Feeding The Flock: The Foundations Of Mormon Thought: Church And Praxis,
2017
University of Richmond
[Introduction To] Feeding The Flock: The Foundations Of Mormon Thought: Church And Praxis, Terryl L. Givens
Bookshelf
Feeding the Flock, the second volume of Terryl L. Givens's landmark study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, traces the essential contours of Mormon practice as it developed from Joseph Smith to the present. Despite the stigmatizing fascination with its social innovations (polygamy, communalism), its stark supernaturalism (angels, gold plates, and seer stones), and its most esoteric aspects (a New World Garden of Eden, sacred undergarments), as well as its long-standing outlier status among American Protestants, Givens reminds us that Mormonism remains the most enduring-and thriving-product of the nineteenth-century's religious upheavals and innovations. Because Mormonism is founded …
History Of The Taipei Temple,
2017
Brigham Young University - Provo
History Of The Taipei Temple, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
MANY PRISONERS SUFFERED at the Taihoku Prison in Taipei, Taiwan, during World War II. Yet, less than two decades later, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased a portion of this land and transformed it from a desolate site into a warm and inviting chapel where Latter-day Saints sought to bring their friends. Elder Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated it on October 16, 1966. Fewer than five thousand members resided in Taiwan at the time. In 1984, Hinckley returned to the same plot of land to dedicate a temple adjacent to the chapel. During one of his addresses, he …
How Religion Influences Coping With Stress And Challenges In Families,
2017
Brigham Young University - Provo
How Religion Influences Coping With Stress And Challenges In Families, Michael A. Goodman, Antonious Skipper, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Emily Layton
Faculty Publications
One key finding of our American Families of Faith research project is that (instead of being defeated by challenges) strong families find ways to effectively cope with and grow closer through stressful situations. Interestingly, six decades ago, Jeff Hill’s uncle, family sociologist Reuben Hill, began to conceptually and empirically examine why some families succumb to crisis as a result of a stressful situation, while other families remain resilient. While stress can lead to crisis, crisis can also lead to familial resilience and the ability of the family to better cope with future stressors. Different families obviously have different strengths and …
Research Support Services For Religious Studies,
2016
Brigham Young University - Provo
Research Support Services For Religious Studies, Trevan Hatch, Ryan Lee, Gerrit Van Dyk
Faculty Publications
This project was part of a larger suite of similar studies being concurrently conducted at fifteen religious studies libraries in US higher education institutions in conjunction with Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic, cultural, and publishing communities. The information gathered in this study will not only be used to improve the research support services at Brigham Young University but also towards writing a larger report from the aggregated results written and publically disseminated by Ithaka S+R.
