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Royal Skousen And Robin Scott Jensen, Eds., Revelations And Translations, Volume 3, Parts 1 And 2: Printer's Manuscript Of The Book Of Mormon, Reviewed By Paul Gutjahr

Mormon Studies Review

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Mark A. Scherer, The Journey Of A People: The Era Of Restoration, 1820 To 1844; The Journey Of A People: The Era Of Reorganization, 1844 To 1946; The Journey Of A People: The Era Of Worldwide Community, 1946 To 2015, Reviewed By Chrystal Vanel

Mormon Studies Review

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Still The Seed Of Abraham?, David A. Hollinger

Mormon Studies Review

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Thomas Carter, Building Zion: The Material World Of Mormon Settlement, Reviewed By Paul G. Monson

Mormon Studies Review

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Letter To The Editor, David G. Stewart Jr., Matthew Martinich

Mormon Studies Review

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Mormon Scholars And Mormon Families In Family Studies: A Brief Retrospective, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Heather Howell Kelley

Mormon Studies Review

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Nathan Thatcher, Paco, Reviewed By Michael Hicks

Mormon Studies Review

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Mormonism And Anthropology: On Ways Of Knowing, Fenella Cannell

Mormon Studies Review

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Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, And Matthew J. Grow, Eds., The First Fifty Years Of Relief Society: Key Documents In Latter-Day Saint Women's History, Reviewed By Dave Hall, Susanna Morrill, Catherine A. Brekus

Mormon Studies Review

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Martha Bradley-Evans, Glorious In Persecution: Joseph Smith/American Prophet, 1839-1844, Reviewed By Richard Lyman Bushman

Mormon Studies Review

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Dan Vogel, Ed., History Of Joseph Smith And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Reviewed By Robin Scott Jensen

Mormon Studies Review

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“Dwellers In Shadows” & Abbatial Jerusalem: Reformed Monastic Ideas By The Third Crusade In The Sermons Of Garnerius Of Rochefort And Adam The Scot, Todd P. Upton

Quidditas

In the crusading era of the Twelfth Century, a majority of Latin sermons presented Jerusalem as a visio pacis (“vision of peace”) that maintained an original characterization of the city made by Pope Urban II’s 1095 sermon at Clermont that launched the First Crusade. This essay demonstrates significant ways in which Garnerius of Rochefort and Adam the Scot transformed that visio pacis by the end of the twelfth century. For Garnerius (d. 1215)—a bishop at Langres (in northeastern France) from 1193 who wrote against the Amaurian pantheistic heresy, and died at Clairvaux—the traditional Augustinian visio spiritualis of Jerusalem was reversed, …

Mormon Studies Review Volume 4, Mormon Studies Review

Mormon Studies Review

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Delno C. West Award

Quidditas

The West Award recognizes the most distinguished paper given by a senior scholar at the annual conference.

Recipient of the West Award for 2017

Kristin M.S. Bezio

University of Richmond

The New Mormon Theology Of Matter, Rosalynde Welch

Mormon Studies Review

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Ignacio M. Garcia, Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, And Keeping The Faith, Reviewed By Rudy V. Busto

Mormon Studies Review

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Kate Holbrook And Matthew Bowman, Eds., Women And Mormonism: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives, Reviewed By Amy Hoyt

Mormon Studies Review

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Gordon Shepherd And Gary Shepherd, A Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism And The Modern Lds Church, Reviewed By Bradley M. Jones

Mormon Studies Review

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Embracing The Law: Reading Doctrine And Covenants 42, Joseph M. Spencer, Jeremiah John

Maxwell Institute Publications

According to Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants 42 “embraces the law of the church.” In this collection of essays, six scholars probe the significance of this revelation, especially the significance of its status as “law.” In what ways is D&C 42—especially the law of consecration—binding for Latter-day Saints today? These wide-ranging essays argue that the law remains in force, but in many different ways.

Fleeing The Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3, Adam S. Miller

Maxwell Institute Publications

The papers collected in this book are the product of a Mormon Theology Seminar dedicated to generating close, theologically informed readings of the second and third chapters of Genesis. Though participants in the seminar employed a wide variety of methodological approaches, the results clearly show a common core of understanding won through months of close collaborative effort. Essays explore the nature of appetite, the role of community, the necessity of ecology, and the persistence of paradox in one of the Bible’s most human stories.

To Be Learned Is Good: Essays On Faith And Scholarship In Honor Of Richard Lyman Bushman, Spencer Fluhman, Kathleen Flake, Jed Woodworth

Maxwell Institute Publications

What does the future hold for Mormonism in the academy? How does personal faith impact one’s scholarship? How might scholarly women and men speak of faith in secular places and times? This volume contains vibrant exchanges on these and other questions from the memorable scholars’ colloquium held in honor of historian and Latter-day Saint Richard Lyman Bushman.

“I think we all feel some tension between our religious convictions and the secular times in which we live. In one way or another, modernism invades and unsettles our thinking, perhaps our thinking about our fields, perhaps our personal beliefs. What I …

Front Matter, Mormon Studies Review

Mormon Studies Review

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The Peculiar Mormon Paradox, Molly Worthen

Mormon Studies Review

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Leonard Bagalwa, Leonard Bagalwa, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

Leonard was forced to join the military at the age of 17 in his home country of the Congo. A Catholic priest smuggled me out of the country and I lived in refugee camps in several different countries until 2004 when he came to the United States.

In 2005, a couple came to Leonard when he was homeless in the Provo library. They found out that he needed help and offered to let me live with them. They ended up paying my tuition for my education and I went to college for five years.

Leonard uses his experiences to teach …

The Devil’S In The Details: A Characterization Of Montresor In Poe’S “The Cask Of Amontillado”, Audrey Saxton

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

The religious imagery present in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” allow critics to read this short story as an allegory and demonstrate the ways in which Montresor and Fortunato reenact the biblical struggle between good and evil. However, the criticism surrounding Poe’s character Montresor is divided. Some critics, such as Donald Pearce and Jay Jacoby view Montresor as a fully devilish character while others, such as Philip M. Pittman, read Montresor as the Christ-figure. Because of this confusion, Montresor’s character becomes complicated. This paper strengthens the Mephistophelean reading of Montresor’s character through a close examination of religious imagery and symbols …

Criterion: A Journal Of Literary Criticism, Vol. 10: Iss. 1

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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The Local Costs Of Religious Reform And The Decline Of Parish Performances In Tudor England, James H. Forse

Quidditas

The volumes of the Records of Early English Drama show that there was a lively tradition of local, religious performances throughout England in the late medieval and early Tudor period. Parishes, large and small, rich and poor, supported plays, processions, ales and other activities like Robin Hood celebrations. Great care, money and time went into creating costumes and staging for these events. Most of these local performances disappeared by the middle of the sixteenth century. A few, notably at York, Chester, Coventry and Norwich, continued into the early 1570s, but focus on these performance “giants” of English theatrical history fails …

A Dream, A Rock, And A Pillar Of Fire, Adam S. Miller

Maxwell Institute Publications

The first chapter of 1 Nephi may be the most read in all of Mormon scripture. But beyond its veneer of familiarity, its substance remains shadowed by a host of contextual and theological questions. The papers collected in this volume offer theological readings that draw on careful examinations of 1 Nephi 1’s structure and literary details to explore questions about Lehi’s world, the nature of revelation, the problem of suffering, and the promised Messiah.

Raciocultural Union And "Fraternity Of Feeling": Ishmael's Redemption In Moby-Dick, Emily Butler-Probst

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

The process of redemption, or the complete transformation of an individual’s life that enables him to avoid personal destruction is precisely what Ishmael experiences as he embraces cultural pluralism over the course of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Ishmael first begins Moby-Dick as a character who embraces isolation and abstract pondering in a manner that is similar to the obsessive, isolated madness of Captain Ahab. He is saved from the “madness” of absolutism by Queequeg, a South Pacific harpooner, in a process which not only expresses the nineteenth-century perception that cultural Others were less afflicted by madness, but also invokes a message …

The Space In-Between: Exploring Liminality In Jane Eyre, Megan Clark

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

From Mrs. Reed’s house to Morton, Jane Eyre is always singled out as otherworldly. Throughout Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë creates different spheres and worlds through the means of social class, and the way people are thought of and treated. These worlds are presented in pairs and as a juxtaposition of each other, but Jane never belongs to either world. She remains in her own realm, always separated from the others. Throughout the text, she is compared to an elf or fairy, emphasizing the otherworldliness that defines her. While some look at Jane as a social outcast due exclusively to …