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Faith Across Cultures: Research On Mormonism In Oceania, Ian Barber Jan 2019

Faith Across Cultures: Research On Mormonism In Oceania, Ian Barber

Mormon Studies Review

Oceania describes the largely marine Pacific basin divided (on moot ethnographic grounds) between Polynesia in the east and Melanesia and Micronesia to the southwest and northwest respectively. The continent of Australia lies on Oceania’s southwestern border. T he first Oceanic settlers arrived in the western Pacific tens of thousands of years ago from Asia. Human settlement of the increasingly depauperate and largely noncontinental islands in eastern Melanesia to Polynesia and Micronesia was accomplished within the last five thousand years. The remote Eastern Polynesian islands were colonized largely if not entirely within the last millennium. These vastly different time scales of …

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The Forms And The Power: Mapping Mormon Practice, Ryan G. Tobler Jan 2019

The Forms And The Power: Mapping Mormon Practice, Ryan G. Tobler

Mormon Studies Review

The waters of scholarship on American religion have been troubled over the past few decades, partly by a radical process of diversification, partly because of tremors within the concept of religion itself. More than ever before, scholars in the field have been forced to reflect critically on just what “religion” is. Is it something transcendent, something above and beyond the here and now? Does religion emanate from an internal condition of belief? Is its institutional and social history a story of creeds, writ large? These were, more or less, the assumptions of generations of church historians and scholars who studied …

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Review: Joanna Brooks And Gina Colvin, Eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching A Postcolonial Zion. Salt Lake: University Of Utah Press, 2018, Jon Bialecki Jan 2019

Review: Joanna Brooks And Gina Colvin, Eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching A Postcolonial Zion. Salt Lake: University Of Utah Press, 2018, Jon Bialecki

Mormon Studies Review

It is no secret, even as Christianity appears to be waning as a cultural and demographic force in many of the North Atlantic nations that it is commonly associated with, that religion—or at least, certain forms of that religion—are very much waxing in other parts of the world. In regions such as Africa, South and Central America, Oceania, and even parts of Asia, modes of Christian practice, belief, and organization, some with ties to Euro-American denominations, but also many without, are spreading at such a pace that authors such as Philip Jenkins (2011) can speak about the churches there as …

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Review: Carol Cornwall Madsen. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2017., Catherine O'Donnell Jan 2019

Review: Carol Cornwall Madsen. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2017., Catherine O'Donnell

Mormon Studies Review

In Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History, Carol Cornwall Madsen reveals the rich and painful inner life of a woman who was for decades the most famous female member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Drawing on an extraordinary “paper trail of thousands of pages from diaries, letters, newspaper articles and editorials, and a volume of poetry” (vii), Madsen offers an astute and sympathetic portrait of a woman who accomplished and suffered much.

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Review: Brent M. Rogers. Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons And The Federal Management Of Early Utah Territory. Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, 2017., William Deverell Jan 2019

Review: Brent M. Rogers. Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons And The Federal Management Of Early Utah Territory. Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, 2017., William Deverell

Mormon Studies Review

Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory accomplishes a number of impressive feats. In the hands of a less-skilled scholar, these objectives might clash and unduly complicate a book and its narrative. Not so in historian Brent M. Rogers’s fine study of antebellum tensions regarding the Mormon political and cultural experiment in the Great Basin.

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Review: Richard E. Turley Jr., Janiece J. Johnson, And Lujean Purcell Carruth, Eds. Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers. 2 Vols. Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2017)., Nathan B. Oman Jan 2019

Review: Richard E. Turley Jr., Janiece J. Johnson, And Lujean Purcell Carruth, Eds. Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers. 2 Vols. Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2017)., Nathan B. Oman

Mormon Studies Review

The story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre is much told, most recently in the comprehensive account produced by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Leonard under the auspices of the Church Historical Department.1 Massacre at Mountain Meadows, however, ends with the mass murder of immigrants by Mormon militiamen in 1857. The authors’ original plan was to produce a second volume that would extend the story to include the subsequent efforts by Mormons to deflect responsibility for the massacre and the pursuit of the perpetrators by federal officials (pp. xi–xii). Much of the research for this effort was …

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Review: D. Michael Quinn. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth And Corporate Power. Salt Lake City, Ut: Signature Books, 2017., Thomas G. Alexander Jan 2019

Review: D. Michael Quinn. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth And Corporate Power. Salt Lake City, Ut: Signature Books, 2017., Thomas G. Alexander

Mormon Studies Review

D. Michael Quinn’s The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power is the third book in a series on the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first volume, published in 1994 and subtitled Origins of Power “emphasizes the development of ecclesiastical and theocratic powers in Mormonism, primarily during the lifetime of its founder Joseph Smith (1805–44), but also including Brigham Young’s transfer of the Mormon hierarchy to Utah in 1847.” (Origins of Power, p. x) Volume 2, published in 1997 and subtitled Extensions of Power, details the development of the spiritual and temporal power of Mormon …

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Review: Matthew J. Grow And R. Eric Smith, Eds. The Council Of Fifty: What The Records Reveal About Mormon History. Provo, Ut: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, Ut: Deseret Book, 2017., Janiece Johnson Jan 2019

Review: Matthew J. Grow And R. Eric Smith, Eds. The Council Of Fifty: What The Records Reveal About Mormon History. Provo, Ut: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, Ut: Deseret Book, 2017., Janiece Johnson

Mormon Studies Review

Since the late 1960s, the minutes of the Mormon Council of Fifty in Nauvoo have been the Mormon documentary “holy grail” (p. viii). What Mario DePillis called “one of the most secret of the Mormons’ sub rosa organizations” and Klaus J. Hansen labelled the “most important key to an understanding of the Mormon past” was a topic for speculation over decades.1 Lack of prior availability did not inhibit prior commentary, but also spurred on attentive archival work. Code words veiling theocratic claims topped with rumors of a self-appointed king could only be met with great suspicion in a democratic republic. …

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Composition Students’ Opinions Of And Attention To Instructor Feedback, Jennifer M. Cunningham Jan 2019

Composition Students’ Opinions Of And Attention To Instructor Feedback, Jennifer M. Cunningham

Journal of Response to Writing

Reading and attending to feedback has long been established as an important part of the writing process and much pedagogical research discusses how to best provide feedback (Hillocks, 1982; Lipnevich & Smith, 2009; Poulos & Mahony, 2008; Sommers, 1982). Little research exists, however, that investigates the frequency with which students actually read their instructors’ feedback. Guided by three research questions, this study includes empirical survey data collected over two years on a regional campus of a large, Midwestern university with an eight-campus system. This study asks (a) if college composition students read their instructors’ feedback, (b) what might encourage them …

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Neither Fairyland Nor Dystopia: Taking Western Europe Seriously In Mormon Studies, Julie K. Allen Jan 2019

Neither Fairyland Nor Dystopia: Taking Western Europe Seriously In Mormon Studies, Julie K. Allen

Mormon Studies Review

Although Mormonism is intimately associated, externally and internally, with American history and culture, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has older ties to western Europe than to anywhere else outside the United States and Polynesia. Without the influx of approximately eighty thousand convert-immigrants from the UK and continental Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, the fledgling church would not have been able to successfully colonize the intermountain West. Although church membership levels in Europe have remained low in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, a robust network of Latter-day Saint congregations across the European continent and the British Isles supports …

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Review: Julie K. Allen. Danish But Not Lutheran: The Impact Of Mormonism On Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2017., Margit Egdal Jan 2019

Review: Julie K. Allen. Danish But Not Lutheran: The Impact Of Mormonism On Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2017., Margit Egdal

Mormon Studies Review

America’s status as a land with a large and diverse immigrant population has long contrasted with the relatively homogenous populations of Europe. However, this situation has changed dramatically throughout Europe in recent decades. In Denmark, migrant workers and refugees from across Europe, Africa, and Asia have made for a more multicultural society.

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Review: Terryl L. Givens. Feeding The Flock: The Foundations Of Mormon T Hought: Church And Praxis. New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017., J. B. Haws Jan 2019

Review: Terryl L. Givens. Feeding The Flock: The Foundations Of Mormon T Hought: Church And Praxis. New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017., J. B. Haws

Mormon Studies Review

Terryl Givens has been calling, for some time, for a broader and more serious engagement with the theology of the Church of Latter-day Saints—and he has framed that call in memorable language, as only he can. Here’s what he wrote for the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center in 2012: “In the century since the [1893] Chicago [World’s] fair, Mormons have been lauded for their choirs and their football. They are largely respected as good, decent, family-centered people, who are welcome to sing for presidents and dance with the stars—and everyone agrees to avoid theological questions.”1 Not if …

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Faith-Promoting History/ History-Promoting Faith, Martin E. Marty Jan 2019

Faith-Promoting History/ History-Promoting Faith, Martin E. Marty

Mormon Studies Review

An excerpt from a long poem by W. H. Auden comes to mind as a framework for assessing these two publications featuring Mormon historian Leonard J. Arrington. He was poised—we might say surefooted—in his Mormon faith and by commitments to the church. At the same time, Arrington consistently made clear that his calling was to be a scholar who excelled in the writing of history in modes acceptable among university-based researchers and writers of many faiths, or of non-faith. There was never any doubt that he pursued his vocation imaginatively and steadfastly through the decades. While these books give evidence …

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Review: Mark Ashurst-Mcgee, Robin Jensen, And Sharalyn D. Howcroft, Eds. Foundational Texts Of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018., Michael Hubbard Mackay Jan 2019

Review: Mark Ashurst-Mcgee, Robin Jensen, And Sharalyn D. Howcroft, Eds. Foundational Texts Of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018., Michael Hubbard Mackay

Mormon Studies Review

In 2005, Robert Orsi argued, “The world of the text is really not the world.”1 In remarkably clear prose Orsi promotes a kind of praxis-oriented methodology that has similarly begun to emerge from within the Joseph Smith Papers Project and subsequent volumes produced by its editors. As Orsi explained, he is interested in “what people do with religious practice, what they make with it of themselves and their worlds.”2 This short review essay will briefly examine Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen, and Sharalyn D. Howcroft’s edited volume Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources. As a by-product of the …

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The First Easter, S. Kent Brown Jan 2019

The First Easter, S. Kent Brown

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Scriptural accounts are rife with information about the import of the first Easter. Understanding the events of the week before the death and resurrection of Christ can help us appreciate the words of the witnesses as well as the importance of these events in our lives.

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Comparing Phonemic Patterns In Book Of Mormon Personal Names With Fictional And Authentic Sources: An Exploratory Study, Brad Wilcox, Bruce L. Brown, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Sharon Black, Dennis L. Eggett Jan 2019

Comparing Phonemic Patterns In Book Of Mormon Personal Names With Fictional And Authentic Sources: An Exploratory Study, Brad Wilcox, Bruce L. Brown, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Sharon Black, Dennis L. Eggett

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In 2013 we published a study examining names from Solomon Spalding’s fictional manuscript, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional works, and nineteenth-century US census records. Results showed names created by authors of fiction followed phonemic patterns that differed from those of authentic names from a variety of cultural origins found in the US census. The current study used the same methodology to compare Book of Mormon names to the three name sources in the original study and found that Book of Mormon names seem to have more in common with the patterns found in authentic names than they do with those …

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Welding Another Link In Wonder’S Chain: The Task Of Latter-Day Saint Intellectuals In The Church’S Third Century, Nathan B. Oman Jan 2019

Welding Another Link In Wonder’S Chain: The Task Of Latter-Day Saint Intellectuals In The Church’S Third Century, Nathan B. Oman

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This is a challenging moment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. Both its efforts at retention and missionary work are less effective than they have been in the past. At this moment, what is the most important task facing Latter-day Saint intellectuals? In contrast to those who argue that faithful thinkers and writers should focus either on defending the faith or providing criticisms of the Church’s failings, this essay argues that the Latter-day Saint clerisy should focus on celebrating the Restoration and finding new language in which to express what makes the Restored Gospel of Jesus …

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Building Dialogue From The Ground Up: Framing Classroom Discussions, Dawan Coombs Jan 2019

Building Dialogue From The Ground Up: Framing Classroom Discussions, Dawan Coombs

The Utah English Journal

Recently a builder friend and I wandered through a house under construction in a nearby neighborhood. As I looked at the cement pad, I confess that I could not envision how what I saw in front of me could become an inhabitable structure. Seeing just wooden beams and supports separating one room from the next, I had a hard time making sense of what was going to be. Shrugging my shoulders, I sighed and asked, "Call me when you've put up the walls?"

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Book Review: Ink Knows No Borders: Poems Of The Immigrant And Refugee Experience, Kaelin Stanley Jan 2019

Book Review: Ink Knows No Borders: Poems Of The Immigrant And Refugee Experience, Kaelin Stanley

The Utah English Journal

At a time when terms such as immigrant and refugee are seen daily in the news and media, the collection of poems found in Ink Knows No Borders is not only refreshing but strikingly relevant to society today. The 64 talented poets whose experiences are beautifully shared in the book provide a unique insider view of the heartache, growing pains, and unconquerable spirit of first- and second-generation immigrants and refugees.

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Book Review: What If It's Us, Zach Searle Jan 2019

Book Review: What If It's Us, Zach Searle

The Utah English Journal

Ben and Arthur, the co-protagonists of Albertalli and Silvera's first collaborative novel, are brought together by the universe--depending on who you ask. Arthur is in New York City for a summer internship with his mother's law firm, and he firmly believes the universe has a plan for him when he runs into Ben at the post office. Ben is only at the post office to mail off his ex-boyfriend's break-up box, and he is convinced that the universe is out to get him. However, after their chance encounter, Ben and Arthur aren't so sure about what the universe wants. If …

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The Utah English Journal, Volume 47, 2019: Full Issue Jan 2019

The Utah English Journal, Volume 47, 2019: Full Issue

The Utah English Journal

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Editorial Introduction, Grant Eckstein, Betsy Gilliland Jan 2019

Editorial Introduction, Grant Eckstein, Betsy Gilliland

Journal of Response to Writing

Welcome to the first issue of the fifth volume year of the Journal of Response to Writing. We are excited to bring you two feature articles and one focused on teaching. Together, these articles span the three major domains we aim to cover: native language, second/additional language, and foreign language writing response. Additionally, the set of articles takes up issues of students’ feedback perceptions and provisions of feedback that can facilitate better student writing.

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Anonymizing The Peer Response Process: An Effective Way To Increase Proposed Revisions?, Joe Garner, Oliver Hadingham Jan 2019

Anonymizing The Peer Response Process: An Effective Way To Increase Proposed Revisions?, Joe Garner, Oliver Hadingham

Journal of Response to Writing

An important drawback of peer response in L2 writing classes is a reluctance to be sufficiently critical of a classmate’s writing, particularly with students from cultures that value group harmony. Anonymization of peer response is commonly proposed as a means of overcoming this problem. The current action research project examined the effect of anonymizing the peer response process on the number of proposed revisions made by students from eight undergraduate writing classes at a private university in Tokyo. It also examined the students’ attitudes towards the peer response process. The findings revealed that the anonymization of the process had significant …

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Weaving A Workshop Into Your Writing Instruction, Jacob Rees Jan 2019

Weaving A Workshop Into Your Writing Instruction, Jacob Rees

The Utah English Journal

Why workshops? When we put students together in groups to discuss their writing, we dramatically expand their audience and increase the opportunities for students to write without increasing our grading load. More importantly, we shift the responsibility back to the students to identify what makes writing work. As it is in our own writing process, the ability to assess always precedes our ability to revise. Always.

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In Memoriam: Richard L. Harp Jan 2019

In Memoriam: Richard L. Harp

Quidditas

This volume is dedicated to Professor Richard L. Harp who died at the age of 73 on 7 March 2019. Richard and his spouse Margaret Harp, Professor of French at UNLV have been active members of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Richard served on the Association’s Executive Board, presented papers and chaired sessions at several conferences, and Margaret served as Treasurer, and organized RMMRA’s 2018 Las Vegas conference.

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Full Issue Jan 2019

Full Issue

Quidditas

No abstract provided.

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Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith As Author Of The Book Of Mormon, Brian C. Hales Jan 2019

Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith As Author Of The Book Of Mormon, Brian C. Hales

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The advent of the computer and the internet allows Joseph Smith as the “author” of the Book of Mormon to be compared to other authors and their books in ways essentially impossible even a couple of decades ago. Six criteria can demonstrate the presence of similarity or distinctiveness among writers and their literary creations: author education and experience, the book’s size and complexity, and the composition process and timeline. By comparing these characteristics, this essay investigates potentially unique characteristics of Joseph Smith and the creation of the Book of Mormon.

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Prospering In The Land: A Comparison Of Covenant Promises In Leviticus And First Nephi 2, Kerry Muhlestein Jan 2019

Prospering In The Land: A Comparison Of Covenant Promises In Leviticus And First Nephi 2, Kerry Muhlestein

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

A careful examination of the Abrahamic covenant, as contained in Leviticus 26, and the covenant established with the Lehites during their exodus to the New World, found in 1 Nephi 2, shows deliberate similarities. These similarities are important to understand, as the role of covenant is central in both ancient Israelite practice and current Latter-day Saint theology.

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Text As Afterthought: Jana Riess’S Treatment Of The Jacob-Sherem Episode, Duane Boyce Jan 2019

Text As Afterthought: Jana Riess’S Treatment Of The Jacob-Sherem Episode, Duane Boyce

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The Neal A. Maxwell Institute recently published a book on the encounter between Jacob and Sherem in Jacob 7. Jana Riess’s contribution to this volume demonstrates the kind of question-asking and hypothesis formation that might occur on a quick first pass through the text, but it does not demonstrate what obviously must come next, the testing of those hypotheses against the text. Her article appears to treat the text as a mere afterthought. The result is a sizeable collection of errors in thinking about Jacob and Sherem.

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Recent Reflections While Partaking Of The Sacrament, Daniel C. Peterson Jan 2019

Recent Reflections While Partaking Of The Sacrament, Daniel C. Peterson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Sometimes, obedience to the principles of the Gospel and tending faithfully to our stewardships can seem — and can be — a burden. Moreover, we mortal humans are fallible and weak, and we’re free. Accordingly, I’m convinced that the Father (a supremely masterful strategist and tactician) builds in redundancies so as to ensure that his purposes will be achieved even when his mortal servants falter. At the very heart of his plan, though, there could be no redundancy. Only one person could do what absolutely, desperately, needed to be done.

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