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Reduction And Enlargement: Harold Bloom's Mormons, Alan Goff

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (1992), by Harold Bloom.

No Working Title Yet, Becca Wahlquist

Inscape

Pages 72-73 have been excluded because they are works of art and can be found in Art: Lupe Niumeitolu.

The Experience Of The Black Death In Bologna As Revealed By The Notarial Registers, Shona Kelly Wray

Quidditas

The Black Death of 1348 has fascinated readers and scholars for centuries. In this century it has been the subject of innumerable debates. Historians have argued back and forth about the demographic effects of the plague, about whether or not it instigated a period of economic depression, or even whether it represented a major event in history. Similarly, disagreement has raged, both inside and outside of the historical discipline, about the medical history and epidemiology of the plague. Fewer studies, however, have focused on the more immediate effects of the plague in localized areas. These scholars have attempted to uncover …

Inventing The Middle Ages, Glenn W. Olsen

Quidditas

Norman Cantor seems to have decided, as a kind of perpetual outsider (in spite of his Princeton and Oxford education), that he has nothing to lose by telling it all. Of his Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (William Morrow and Company, New York 1991), Lee Patterson says accurately on the dust jacket: 'Intriguing, informative, irritating, and vastly entertaining, Inventing the Middle Ages will rattle lots of cages'. I am not sure that this book has raised Cantor's status in the eyes of very many practicing medievalists, and indeed …

Review Essay: Lerer, Seth. Literacy And Power In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Raymond P. Tripp Jr.

Quidditas

Lerer, Seth. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1991. xii + 268 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things And Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology, Richard G. Barlow

Quidditas

Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xv + 142 pp, appendixes, works cited, index. $24.50.

Adelman, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare's works, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Mcintosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor And Liberty Of Haverings, 1500-1620, Wm. Kent Hackmann

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McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500-1620. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. 489 pp. $74.95.

"If Men Were Angels": The Normative Role Of Schools In Fostering Civic Virtue, William Bryner

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Science, Religion And Mormon Cosmology By Erich Robert Paul, Richard F. Haglund Jr.

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Section 76 As Literature In The Doctrine And Covenants, William H. Brugger

Theses and Dissertations

This project attempts to demonstrate the value of literary approaches to the Doctrine and Covenants, using a predominantly formalistic approach. To establish a foundation, the first chapter discusses the rich literary content of the Doctrine and Covenants, providing examples of the various literary genres represented in it, such as narrative, saga, parable, and poetry. The second chapter presents portions of Section 76 that contain features characteristic of Hebrew poetry, such as figures of speech and parallelism. The third chapter analyzes ways in which Section 76's poetic dimensions are illuminated by "The Vision," a 312-line poem attributed to Joseph Smith. The …

Employment And Happiness Among Mormon And Non-Mormon Mothers In Utah, Kimberly Grace Andersen

Theses and Dissertations

The effects of maternal employment status on the happiness and/or unhappiness of married Utah women with children were studied. The independent variables were employment status, age, and denomination. Covariates were health, husbands income, and number of children. Denominational differences were not found to impact happiness, but age and employment status were related to happiness, with non-employed and younger mothers being happier.

Education And The Gender Gap In Earned Income, Alison Wiltbank Brady

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Essay: Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor Di Virtù: Commedia In Cinque Atti, 1548, Robert M. Johnston

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Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor di virtù: Commedia in cinque atti, 1548. Ed Elissa Weaver. Longo Editore, Ravenna 1990. 286 pp.

A Qualitative View Of The Educational Experiences Of Black African Students At Brigham Young University, Khumbulani Desmond Mdletshe

Student Works

Black African students first began enrolling at Brigham Young University (BYU) in the mid 1960's. Most were from Nigeria and Ghana, having been sent by their governments to receive a higher education. In the late 1970's, students from other Black African countries began enrolling at BYU. But in the 1980's, government support was not as strong. As one former BYU graduate student from Nigeria put it: "When I first came here in 1980 there were at least 30 Nigerian students. There were so many of them because the government was sponsoring them. Now the numbers have decreased because the government …

The Dynamics Of Negative Political Advertising: History, Thematic Designs, And Effectiveness, Erik J. Bolinder

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Conventionalism And Contractarianism, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

In this paper Noel B. Reynolds’s theory of law as convention is compared to the public choice contractarian theory of James M. Buchanan. While there are numerous similarities, major differences emerge. Only conventionalism can produce legal and political authority and norms to guide the use of that authority in maintaining the rule of law. The concept of constructive unanimity is introduced to overcome the ultimate failure of contractarianism to legitimate the authority of law.

Weber, Spengler, And The Origins, Spirit, And Development Of Capitalism, John Farrenkopf

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Jaroslav Krejci. Before The European Challenge: The Great Civilizations Of Asia And The Middle East, John K. Hord

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Lois Benjamin. The Black Elite—Facing The Color Line In The Twilight Of The Twentieth Century, Korsi Dogbe

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Dream Is Ours To Fulfill, Bruce C. Hafen

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Mormon Bibliography 1991, Ellen M. Copley

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Bottom Line, Greg Forbush, Jonathan M. Chamberlain

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Hiding, Health, And Love: Some Interrelationships, Burton C. Kelly

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Quarta Orbis Pars: Monologizing The New World, Michael Palencia-Roth

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Temple, Psychotherapy, And The Traditions Of The Fathers, Wendy L. Ulrich

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Bibliography Of Recent Publications By Amcap Members, Amcap Journal

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Proposed Agenda For A Spiritual Strategy In Personality And Psychotherapy, Allen E. Bergin, I. Reed Payne

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

This essay argues that spiritual approaches in personality and psychotherapy are currently not coherent and that a rational strategy is not being pursued to develop an authentic spiritual orientation that can take its place alongside the other major orientations to personality and psychotherapy. It is suggested that a systematic spiritual approach needs to be developed that contributes uniquely to (a) a conception of human nature, (b) a moral frame of reference, and (c) specific techniques of change. In addition, a spiritual approach, if it is to be a viable option in the mental health field needs to be (d) empirical, …

Roger Williams Wescott. Getting It Together: Linking The Humanities To One Another And To The Sciences, William Eckhardt

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Robert E. Hales And Sandra L. Hales, A Standard Unto My People, John M. Beck

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of A Standard unto My People (1990), by Robert E. Hales and Sandra L. Hales.

Editor's Introduction: Questions To Legal Answers, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Peterson relates his understanding of a dispute between FARMS and Signature Books about matters of free inquiry and intellectual (dis)honesty.