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Comparative Civilizations Review

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Hold The Tiller Firm: On Method And The Unit Of Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein

Comparative Civilizations Review

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The Case For A World Systems Approach To Civilizations: A View From The "Transformationist" Camp, Thomas D. Hall

Comparative Civilizations Review

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What Constitutes A World History? Prentice Hall, History Of Civilization: Prehistory To The Present., Laurence Grambow Wolf

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Resolving Conflicts Of Worldviews: Lds Women And Television, Daniel A. Stout

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

While disagreement exists about the impact of television viewing on LDS family life, this research takes an audience-focused approached to the question of "media effects" by examining how a sample of LDS women describe experiences with television in their own words. Three "interpretive communities" reflecting different strategies for resolving television-related conflicts in the home are identified. These diverse perspectives about the role of television in LDS family life provide a useful point of departure for counselors and other professionals seeking to understand the relationship between television viewing and family conflicts.

Tacit Cooperation Between Enemies: Two Case Studies, Kristina Handy

Theses and Dissertations

This research details a point of reference to understand two case studies of cooperation that developed among lower-level, or non policy-making bureaucrats during times of conflict or war. Using components of game theory, I propose that when an international conflictual relationship occurs that resembles an iterated Prisoners' Dilemma, and that meets certain conditions, tacit cooperation can emerge. Tacit cooperation consists of illicit or implied cooperation that is not sanctioned at the national policy level.

In this research I develop a framework of tacit cooperation, relying heavily upon Robert Axelrod's theory of evolutionary cooperation. With the framework in place, I then …

Relationship Issues In Lds Blended Families, Janet S. Scharman

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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Civilizations And World Systems: An Introduction, Stephen K. Sanderson

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Expanding World Commercialization: The Link Between World Systems And Civilizations, Stephen K. Sanderson

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Pre Vs. Post 1500ers, Albert Bergesen

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Representations Of Western Women. Pauline Schmit Pantel, Ed. A History Of Women: From Ancient Goddesses To Christian Saints., Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Comparative Civilizations Review

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Confusion Worse Confounded: Through The Looking Glass Of Matt Melko In Wonderland, Andre Gunder Frank

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Investigating The Age Effects Of Family Structure On Adolescent Marijuana Use, John P. Hoffmann

Faculty Publications

This study examines differences among older and younger adolescents in the influence of family structure, family relations, and peer relations on marijuana use. Data from a longitudinal sample of adolescents from the United States were stratified by age and used to assess these potential differences. Precise measures of family structure were constructed to account for the various manifestations of family forms. Multivariate analyses indicate that a recent divorce attenuates attachment among younger adolescents and leads to less family involvement among older adolescents. Moreover, older adolescents from stepparent families are less attached to their families. Changes in these family relationship variables …

Mormon In The Fiery Furnace: Or, Loftes Tryk Goes To Cambridge, William J. Hamblin, Daniel C. Peterson, George L. Mitton

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology (1994), by John L. Brooke.

A Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy Challenges Cultural Mormon Neglect Of The Book Of Mormon: Some Reflections On The “Impact Of Modernity”, Louis Midgley

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Mormon Neo-Orthodoxoy: A Crisis Theology (1987), by O. Kendal White Jr.

Vol. 6 Num. 2 Farms Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Nephi's Descendants? Historical Demography And The Book Of Mormon, James E. Smith

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of “Multiply Exceedingly: Book of Mormon Populations Sizes” (1993), by John C. Kunich

The Current Battle Over The Book Of Mormon: “Is Modernity Itself Somehow Canonical?”, Louis Midgley

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of “The Word of God Is Enough: The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture” (1993), by Anthony A. Hutchison.

About The Reviewers, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Review Essay: Rüeg, Walter, Ed. Mittelalter. Vol. I Of Geschichte Der Universität In Europa, Ingrid Baumgärtner

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Ruëgg, Walter, ed. Mittelalter. Vol. I of Geschichte der Universität in Europa. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1993. 435 pp. 7 maps. DM 148. (DM 128 with subscription to all four volumes.)

Risk-Taking Predispositions Among Mormon Women: Improving Communication About Health And Environmental Risks, Shelly Nicholls

Theses and Dissertations

This study measures risk-taking predisposition among a conservative religious population of women, in this instance Mormon women. Risk taking is defined as a recognition of some probability of negative consequences to an action, which can include the loss of a potential reward as well as a punishment. A risk-taking predisposition results when individuals are not risk aversive but, in fact, enjoy risk taking.

Survey research collected at two conferences in Utah reveal the likelihood of moderate levels of rebellious and adventurous risk-taking predisposition among the over 500 Mormon women respondents. It is suggested that religious affiliation or economic and educational …

Other-Centeredness And Depression In A Sample Of Mormon Women, Janice G. Nielson

Theses and Dissertations

Other-centeredness and depression were examined to see if a relationship existed between the two. One scale measuring other-centeredness and another measuring depression were given to a sample of married Mormon women who did not work outside the home. Other-centeredness and depression were significantly negatively correlated. The women scoring in the top one-third of the range of other-centeredness scores suffered no depression on the depression scale. The factor most predictive for depression was the relationship the women had with her husband, and other-centeredness was found to overlap with this variable to some extent. The factors of health, income, and education were …

America's Drug War: The Need And Requirement For Cultural Change, Mason T. Barlow

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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From Mormon To Evangelical: A Look At Disaffiliation And Conversion, Laura M. Marwick

Theses and Dissertations

Religion is a major institution in society and for many, affiliation with a religious group shapes the way they view the world and the way they interact with other formal and informal institutions within society. In addition, particular behaviors are present during the processes an individual goes through when deciding to leave or switch their religious affiliation.
There are a variety of new affiliations that these disaffiliated individuals can make. One alternative religious group that disaffected members of the LDS Church (Mormons) can form a new affiliation with is Evangelical Christianity, often referred to as the "Born Again Movement". This …

The International Diffusion Of The Mormon Church, Samuel Otterstrom

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis outlines the international diffusion and growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church. A model of Mormon spatial diffusion in foreign countries is developed incorporating both a functional and spatial perspective. The functional perspective includes supply and demand variables which influence the rate of growth of the Mormon Church in a country. The functional perspective is not fully explored in the thesis. The spatial perspective which the study concentrates on seeks to show a general spatial pattern related to the spread of the Church within countries.

The original diffusion of the Church to …

Active Latter-Day Saint Working Mothers: Their Effect On Their Daughters' Future Plans, Nissa C. Bengtson Allred

Theses and Dissertations

This research looks at the effect employed active LDS mothers have on their daughters' future plans for education, career, marriage, and children. Mothers' educational level, type of employment, and daughters' attachment to the LDS church were taken into consideration. It was found that a majority of daughters are definite in their plans for education, career, marriage, and children regardless of the employment status of their mother. Daughters of employed LDS mothers are more definite in their plans for a career than daughters of unemployed LDS mothers. No effect was found for mothers' employment on daughters' future plans for college, marriage, …

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The Bridge

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The Bridge

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An Immigrant Story Of Peter Petersen Thisted: Itinerant, Maverik Danish Lutheran Pastor, 1859-1915, Paul A. Thisted

The Bridge

This is the story of my Danish grandfather whom I never

knew except through infrequent stories from my father. I

asked my father Aaron to write a family history about his

dad, but he never did. I never found out why he wouldn't. I

wondered about my Thisted grandparents before and after

both my parents died, so I decided to piece the puzzle

together as best I could, while several uncles and aunts were

still alive.