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Moroni As Angel And As Treasure Guardian, Mark Ashurst-Mcgee

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Creation By Evolution?, Frank B. Salisbury

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Trent D. Stephens, D. Jeffrey Meldrum, with Forrest B. Peterson. Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for Understanding.

Joseph Smith And “Interpretive Biography”, Larry E. Morris

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Dan Vogel. Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet.

Editor's Introduction, The Witchcraft Paradigm: On Claims To “Second Sight” By People Who Say It Doesn't Exist, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Contributors

The Bridge

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A Tale Of Two Geniuses--With Opposing Views Of Tales--And An Ingenious Critic Of Both: H.C. Andersen, Soren Kierkegaard, And Georg Brandes, Poul Houe

The Bridge

The year 2005 marks the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth and the 150th anniversary of Soren Kierkegaard's death. Kierkegaard's critique of Andersen as a novelist was merciless, and Andersen's relation to Kierkegaard the man and the thinker was not easygoing either. Both of these towering nineteenth century Golden Age Danes were first portrayed in a big way by the same Danish critic, Georg Brandes, himself a pivotal figure in nineteenth century European criticism. I thought it appropriate, therefore, to focus my paper on Andersen, Kierkegaard, and Brandes as three cornerstones of nineteenth century Danish culture.

The Reception Of Danish Science Fiction In The United States, Kristine J. Anderson

The Bridge

Science fiction is a distinctly American genre. Although scholars have traced its origins back as far as the Latin writer Lucian of Samosata,1 it was Hugo Gernsback, a publisher of pulp magazines in the United States, who first gave the genre its name in the June 1929 issue of Wonder Stories. Gernsback had been serializing the scientific romances of such writers as Jules Verne and HG. Wells, emphasizing their treatment of technology and putting them forth as models for other budding writers to imitate. The magazines that Gernsback initiated became very popular, spawning more from other publishers. Groups of aficionados …

Full Issue

The Bridge

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Imagine, Michael D. Jibson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Sam Harris. The Ends of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.

The Old Testament As Reliable History, John Gee

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Kenneth A. Kitchen. On the Reliability of the Old Testament.

Overcoming Myths About Marriage, Jeffry H. Larson

Marriage and Families

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Estimation Of Aquifer Transmissivity Using Kriging, Artificial Neural Network, And Neuro-Fuzzy Models

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

In interpolation of groundwater properties such as transmissivity, due to the unknown distributed values of the variables and heterogenity, the best and the unbiased aspects are frequently difficult to obtain. Therefore, applying a modern technique is necessary to obtain a real estimation of transmissivity. To gain the transmissivity values as an input data in groundwater modelling, the ordinary log kriging method has been used. In this study, the efficiency of the Adaptive Network based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), artificial neural networks and ordinary kriging are investigated for interpolation of transmissivity in an unconfined aquifer. The results indicate that ANFIS model …

Religious Commitment And Political Interest, Melanie Walther

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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Reviews

The Bridge

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Full Issue

The Bridge

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Helping Those With Eating Disorders, Marleen S. Williams

Marriage and Families

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Full Issue, Marriage &. Families

Marriage and Families

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Karin Michaelis: Famous Danish Novelist And Humanitarian Rebel With A Cause, Merete Von Eyben

The Bridge

Consider the following question: Which Danish author was not only one of the most famous European authors in the early part of the twentieth century, but also one of the most widely read female ones; had all of her books translated into German and some of them into as many as 30 other languages; wrote the most notorious bestseller of that period; celebrated her 60th birthday at a banquet hosted by Austrian PEN in Vienna where she was awarded both an Austrian and a Czechoslovakian medal and honored by the German language papers as Europe's Conscience; had her books banned …

News: Mean Girls Start In Preschool/ Byu Research Gives Guidance To Families Struggling With Cancer, Tonya Fischio, Marriage &. Families

Marriage and Families

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Dealing With The "Third Enemy": English-Language Learning And Native-Language Maintenance Among Danish Immigrants In Utah, 1850-1930, Lynn Henrichsen, George Bailey, Jacob Huckaby

The Bridge

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, over 22,000 Scandinavians joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter referred to as the church or the LDS church) and migrated to Utah.1 Well over half of these Scandinavians, 12,350 (not including children age 12 and under), were Danes.2

This influx of people who spoke a language other than English and came from a cultural background different from that of the original Anglo-American settlers of Utah presented some perplexing challenges. Even Brigham Young, the territorial governor and LDS church president, found them difficult to resolve. According to local folklore, …

Vol. 18 Num. 2 The Farms Review, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Utah Historians And The Reconstruction Of Western History By Gary Topping, Brian Q. Cannon

BYU Studies

Gary Topping. Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

"Lightning Out Of Heaven": Joseph Smith And The Forging Of Community, Terryl L. Givens

BYU Studies

Several weeks ago I received an email from someone who identified himself as a BYU student doing a research paper on the Prophet Joseph Smith. He asked, “Would you be kind enough to share with me what you feel the impact of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon on the world has been?” This was an important question, so I took time framing my reply. I wrote, “It was big.” However, upon reflection, I decided against sending that email. I did not want to do most of his work for him. I thought perhaps I would now revisit that …

About The Contributors, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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The Greater Challenge: Staying Home Or Emigrating?, Inger Wiehl

The Bridge

This presentation poses the challenge of emigrating versus that of staying home, exemplified by a Southern Jutlander who stayed home during the years of Prussian rule between 1864 and 1920 and one who left for America during those years. It begs the larger question of who endures more, those who leave or those who stay behind, a salient issue underlying all emigration and any significant parting. Put in classical terms: Who faces the greater challenge Odysseus or Penelope? He endures any number of dangers on his way back from Troy; she stays by her loom and keeps home intact for …

The Unpopularity And Improbability Of The Insanity Defense, William Weaver

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

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Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Cognitive, Emotional, And Quality Of Life Outcomes In Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Joanne White, Ramona O. Hopkins, Eric G. Glissmeyer, Natalie Kitterman, C. Gregory Elliott

Faculty Publications

Background: The effects of pulmonary arterial hypertension on cardiovascular and physical function are well documented. Limited information exists regarding the effects of pulmonary arterial hypertension on cognitive function despite patient reports of problems with memory and attention. Our primary purpose was to determine if a prospectively identified cohort of pulmonary arterial hypertension patients had cognitive sequelae. Our secondary purpose was to determine the relationships between cognitive sequelae and neuropsychological test scores with depression, anxiety, and quality of life.

Methods: Forty-six adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension underwent assessment of cognitive function, depression, anxiety, and quality of life using standardized neuropsychological tests …

The Family As A Context For Religious And Spiritual Development In Children And Youth, Chris J. Boyatzis, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks

Faculty Publications

Our chapter addresses how the family promotes or hinders transcendence of the self in children, that is, how the family is a context in which spiritual development occurs. Due to space limitations, our emphasis is on socialization and interaction processes within the family and not on other issues such as psychodynamic processes (e.g., Rizzuto, 1979) or faith development (e.g., Fowler, 1981). There are many motivations to explore family socialization of religious and spiritual development. One, family spirituality and religiosity are linked with many desirable outcomes and inversely with negative outcomes in children and youth. (Other chapters in this volume examine …

Aligning Employees Through "Line Of Sight", Wendy R. Boswell, John B. Bingham, Alexander J.S. Colvin

Faculty Publications

Aligning employees with the firm’s larger strategic goals is critical if organizations hope to manage their human capital effectively and ultimately attain strategic success. An important component of attaining and sustaining this alignment is for employees to have a bline of sightQ (LOS) with their organization’s strategic objectives. In this article, we illustrate how the translation of calculated firm goals into tangible results requires that employees not only understand the organization’s strategy, but also accurately appreciate what actions are aligned with realizing that strategy. Using recent empirical evidence, theoretical insights, and tangible examples of exemplary firm practices, we provide thought-leaders …