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The Council Of Fifty: What The Records Reveal About Mormon History, Alison Palmer
The Council Of Fifty: What The Records Reveal About Mormon History, Alison Palmer
BYU Studies Quarterly
Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Smith, eds., The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017)
At The Pulpit: 185 Years Of Discourses By Latter-Day Saint Women, Jennifer Hurlbut
At The Pulpit: 185 Years Of Discourses By Latter-Day Saint Women, Jennifer Hurlbut
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Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook, eds., At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2017)
Wise Or Foolish: Women In Mormon Biblical Narrative Art, Jennifer Champoux
Wise Or Foolish: Women In Mormon Biblical Narrative Art, Jennifer Champoux
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Visual imagery is an inescapable element of religion. Even those groups that generally avoid figural imagery, such as those in Judaism and Islam, have visual objects with religious significance.1 In fact, as David Morgan, professor of religious studies and art history at Duke University, has argued, it is often the religions that avoid figurative imagery that end up with the richest material culture.2 To some extent, this is true for Mormonism. Although Mormons believe art can beautify a space, visual art is not tied to actual ritual practice. Chapels, for example, where the sacrament ordinance is performed, are built with …
The Rise And Fall Of Portugal's Maritime Empire, A Cautionary Tale?: Forgotten Pioneers Of The Age Of Expansion, Discoverers Of Two-Thirds Of The World For Europe, Ambassadors Of The West, Interpreters Of The East, Who For A Century And A Half Governed The Lands And Controlled The Riches Flowing Into Europe From Africa, Persia, Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Oceania, And Half Of South America, Then Lost Much Of Their Empire To Britain, France, And Holland; With Some Comments About Columbus And The Spread Of Christianity, Frederick G. Williams
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In the United States, we automatically think of England as the great maritime nation on whose overseas possessions the sun never set. We also identify Spain as a great maritime power, whose American colonies, especially Mexico and Peru, produced immense wealth for the kingdom. However, we forget, or more likely never knew (because we were never taught), that it was Portugal that invented the ship and developed the maritime technology that allowed for the first open-sea travel during the European Age of Exploration, begun by Portugal in 1415 (fig. 1). It was Portugal that discovered more than two-thirds of the …
Revelations And Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books And Volume 2: Published Revelations, James B. Allen
Revelations And Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books And Volume 2: Published Revelations, James B. Allen
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Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, eds. Revelations and Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books.
The Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: The Church of Historian's Press, 2011.
Robin Scott Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Riley M. Lorimer, eds. Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations.
The Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: The Church Historian's Press, 2011.
From The Editor, John W. Welch
From The Editor, John W. Welch
BYU Studies Quarterly
I am once again pleased and proud to complete the production of this issue of BYU Studies Quarterly at the beginning of this fall season. These pages represent the harvest of another fine summer season of wonderful writing, reviewing, source checking, editing, and publication. Looking back over the past months and years, I speak for everyone in thanking all the extended family of scholars, friends, and supporters who have made this issue possible.
Wandering On To Glory, Patrick Moran
Wandering On To Glory, Patrick Moran
BYU Studies Quarterly
In my suburban town, commuting is a fact of life, every bit as much as sowing and reaping and harvesting probably were for my agrarian forebears. It’s simply a given that work is far away and that a good portion of every day is spent getting there in the morning and then getting back again later on.
Handcart Trekking: From Commemorative Reenactment To Modern Phenomenon, Melvin L. Bashore
Handcart Trekking: From Commemorative Reenactment To Modern Phenomenon, Melvin L. Bashore
BYU Studies Quarterly
From an early date, Mormons have remembered and celebrated their history with jubilees, commemorative celebrations, pageants, markers, and reenactments. Only two years after the first Mormons arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, several thousand Church members celebrated the event with the first Mormon Pioneer Day on July 24, 1849. There was a procession, speeches, songs, prayers, and a bounteous feast reminiscent of the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the Pioneer Day celebration had been firmly established throughout the Mormon corridor.
True And Faithful: Joseph Fielding Smith As Mormon Historian And Theologian, Reid L. Neilson, Scott D. Marianno
True And Faithful: Joseph Fielding Smith As Mormon Historian And Theologian, Reid L. Neilson, Scott D. Marianno
BYU Studies Quarterly
Each year hundreds of thousands of visitors to Salt Lake City’s Temple Square make their way to the Church History Museum of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While many of the museum’s exhibits have been rotated over the past three decades, the “Presidents of the Church” gallery, made of individual displays for each previous Church president, is a longstanding exhibit that has generally been refreshed only after a Mormon prophet has died and his artifacts have been added to the chronological display cases. The current museum exhibit commemorating President Joseph Fielding Smith (1876–1972) hangs on the east …
Photographs Of The Dedication Of Pioneer Square In Salt Lake City, July 25, 1898, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Ronald L. Fox
Photographs Of The Dedication Of Pioneer Square In Salt Lake City, July 25, 1898, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Ronald L. Fox
BYU Studies Quarterly
In July 1898, the Spanish-American War was raging and the people of the United States were remembering the Maine, a US ship that sank after an explosion in the Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. Nevertheless, the upcoming fifty-first anniversary of the 1847 arrival of the Mormon pioneers in Utah was on the minds of Salt Lake City officials. This anniversary was celebrated off and on beginning in 1849; in the 1897 jubilee year, just a year earlier, the community had “pulled out all the stops.” As city officials considered what might be done in 1898, they focused their attention …
The Work Of Their Hands, Taylor Cozzens
The Work Of Their Hands, Taylor Cozzens
BYU Studies Quarterly
When I turned eighteen, I took a job as a laborer for a construction company that was building dormitories on a university campus in High Point, North Carolina. It was a new world for me, one of mud, concrete, and rebar. The Lulls, excavators, and flatbeds crawled around the job site, engines roaring, back-up beepers blaring. Meanwhile, the chop saws competed with the quickie saws to see which could scream the loudest as they sliced through wood, metal, and concrete. I soon came to know the tingling in the fingers after using a Sawzall and the smell of hot metal …
My Son's Guitar Class, Darlene Young
Foundations Of The Restoration: Fulfillment Of The Covenant Purposes, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Foundations Of The Restoration: Fulfillment Of The Covenant Purposes, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
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Craig James Ostler, Michael Hubbard MacKay, and Barbara Morgan Gardner, eds., Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016)
At Sword's Point, Part 1: A Documentary History Of The Utah War To 1858; Part 2: A Documentary History Of The Utah War, 1858-1859; Vols. 10 And 11 Of Kingdom In The West: The Mormons And The American Frontier, Devan Jensen
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William P. MacKinnon, ed., At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858, and Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858– 1859, vols. 10 and 11 of Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier, ed. Will Bagley and David L. Bigler (Norman, Okla.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008, 2016)
From The Editor, John W. Welch
From The Editor, John W. Welch
BYU Studies Quarterly
Hello again, dear reader. I can’t thank you enough for your regular interest in this journal, now in its fifty-ninth year of publication. I trust that you will find the contents of this issue to be every bit as valuable and as fascinating as usual. On these pages, solid traditional interests blend productively with latest developments and our most up-to-date needs.
The Development Of The Council On The Disposition Of The Tithes, David W. Smith
The Development Of The Council On The Disposition Of The Tithes, David W. Smith
BYU Studies Quarterly
On December 1, 2009, Presiding Bishop H. David Burton spoke to Brigham Young University students about the current opportunities and pressing challenges they would face throughout the world. He observed, “We all have to determine for ourselves if we—in mixed turbulent times like we are currently in—perceive the glass of water to be half full or half empty. I’m a half-full sort of guy. I propose that we are, indeed, living in the best of times.” He then shared one reason he was so full of optimism:
Let me give you a little perspective. Do you know what important event …
Mystery And Dance, Daniel F. Teichert
Photographs Of The Interior Of The Salt Lake Tabernacle, December 1905, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Ronald L. Fox
Photographs Of The Interior Of The Salt Lake Tabernacle, December 1905, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Ronald L. Fox
BYU Studies Quarterly
The United States government’s war on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to a sudden end with the issuance of the Manifesto in 1890. The cessation of the conflict produced a period of goodwill between Latter-day Saints and their neighbors in Utah and with politicians in Washington, D.C. However, the fragile truce began to show cracks in 1896 when Utah achieved statehood, and by 1900, with the election of B. H. Roberts to the U.S. Congress, the final vestiges of the armistice had all but disappeared. Four years later, in 1904, with the election of LDS Apostle …
Dating The Departure Of Lehi From Jerusalem, Jeffrey R. Chadwick
Dating The Departure Of Lehi From Jerusalem, Jeffrey R. Chadwick
BYU Studies Quarterly
Most Latter-day Saints would agree that the prophet Lehi and his family left their home in Jerusalem and departed into the wilderness in the year 600 BC. This is largely due to the presence of an asterisk in 1 Nephi 2:4, present in every official edition of the Book of Mormon from 1920 to 2012, which alerts readers to a “600 BC” chronological notation at the bottom of the page. However, a number of studies over the last forty years have suggested that 600 BC cannot have been the correct date of Lehi’s departure, preferring later dates anywhere from 597 …
Paco, Luke Howard
Paco, Luke Howard
BYU Studies Quarterly
Nathan Thatcher. Paco.
New York: Mormon Artists Group, 2016.
A House Full Of Females: Plural Marriage And Women's Rights In Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, Lowell C. Bennion
A House Full Of Females: Plural Marriage And Women's Rights In Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, Lowell C. Bennion
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Settling The Valley, Proclaiming The Gospel: The General Epistles Of The Mormon First Presidency, Gerrit Van Dyk
Settling The Valley, Proclaiming The Gospel: The General Epistles Of The Mormon First Presidency, Gerrit Van Dyk
BYU Studies Quarterly
Reid L. Neilson and Nathan N. Waite, eds., Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Leonard Arrington And The Writing Of Mormon History, James B. Allen
Leonard Arrington And The Writing Of Mormon History, James B. Allen
BYU Studies Quarterly
Gregory A. Prince. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.
The Trek East: Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901-1968, Stephen J. Moody
The Trek East: Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901-1968, Stephen J. Moody
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Shinji Takagi. The Trek East: Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901-1968.
Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016.
Out Of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945, Roger Terry
Out Of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945, Roger Terry
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Patrick Q. Mason and John G. Turner, eds., Out of Obscurity: Mormonism since 1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Religion And Families: An Introduction, Alison Palmer
Religion And Families: An Introduction, Alison Palmer
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Loren D. Marks and David C. Dollahite, Religion and Families: An Introduction, Textbooks in Family Studies Series (New York: Routledge, 2017)