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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

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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.

Vol. 4 Farms Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

The Significance Of The Private Letter In Immigration History, Niels Peter Stilling

The Bridge

The title of this paper is two-sided. The private letter is an important source for understanding the psychological and human aspects of immigration. It is also important to note that until recently historians have shown much too little interest in the documents from the immigrants themselves. My hypothesis, which I intend to discuss here, is that the private letter was the most important stimulating pull-factor in immigration history. In certain periods a call for USA was put forward in most letter series. Praising various aspects of American life, private letters were written to draw relatives or friends across the Atlantic. …

Offenders For A Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games To Attack The Latter-Day Saints, Daniel C. Peterson, Stephen D. Ricks

Maxwell Institute Publications

This book reveals the tactics many anti-Mormons employ in attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In clear, straightforward terms, the authors explain the true beliefs of the church and how to see through the word games that critics use to attack it.

Offenders for a Word answers critics’ objections to Latter-day Saint beliefs regarding the Godhead, polygamy, salvation by grace and works, eternal progression, the premortal existence, the role of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the nature of the Holy Ghost, and much more.

Review Essay: Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale And Theories Of Scholastic Psychology, Charles R. Smith

Quidditas

Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology, University of South Florida Press, 1990, xviii, 376 pp., ill., biblio., index, $36.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paperback).

A Study Of African American Women And Their Perceptions Of Life In Utah, Jennifer Caye Demayo

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine, through the use of the ethnographic interview (Spradley, 1979), residential preferences, as well as the stated reasons for relocation of African American women who live in a predominantly White, Utah Mormon culture. The "push and pull" factors that impacted the women's decisions to come to and/or remain in Utah were qualitatively analyzed in some detail. The end goal of the research was to determine whether Utah was perceived as a desirable residence by and for African American women.

Residential preference is a complex issue which requires an in depth explanation. The prominent …

Review Essay: Timothy Verdon And John Henderson, Eds., Christianity And Renaissance: Image And Religious Imagination In The Quattrocento, Edward J. Olszewski

Quidditas

Timothy Verdon and John Henderson, eds., Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xix, 611 pp., ill., $55.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

Quidditas

Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Front Matter

Quidditas

No abstract provided.

Mormon Polygamy: A History Richard S. Van Wagoner, Thomas G. Alexander

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Learn Audit Selection Rules From Data: A Genetic Algorithms Approach, David P. Greene, Rayman D. Meservy, Stephen F. Smith

Faculty Publications

The construction of expert systems typically require the availability of expertise that can be modeled. However, there are many important problems where no expertise exists, yet there is a wealth of data indicating results in different situations. Machine learning algorithms attempt to discover rules which capture the regularities that exists in such data.

Jerald Tanner And Sandra Tanner, Mormonism: Shado Or Reality?, Matthew Roper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? (1987), by Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner.

"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain

Quidditas

Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …

Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke

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Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton, American University Studies 4, Peter Lang, 1990, 394 pp., biblio., index, $65.00.