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Utopian Marriage In Nineteenth-Century America: Public And Private Discourse, Brenda Olsen Andrus

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of utopian discourse about marriage in mid-nineteenth-century America. Although utopian communities are usually approached within the fields of history and sociology, a rhetorical analysis adds to the discussion by uncovering the discursive complexity of marriage beliefs within a rapidly changing culture. Discursive features of the Shaker, Oneida Community and Latter-day Saint texts are outlined and compared according to the following format:

Chapter One examines the textures of conflict within the dominant culture's views of marriage and gender roles in nineteenth-century America, with a brief overview of reform efforts of the day. This chapter provides …

An Annotated Bibliography Of Literary Mormon Humor, Sherlene Hall Bartholomew

Theses and Dissertations

This "Annotated Bibliography of Literary Mormon Humor" includes over five hundred sources, cross-referenced to pertinent commentary and criticism, and divided into seven sections: "Humor in Mormon Fiction," "Humor in Mormon Non-Fiction," "Mormon Criticism Assessing ‘Inside Humor,’" "Gentile Criticism of the Saints' Humor," "Gentile Humor About Mormons," "Mormon Criticism of Gentile Humor," and "Mormon Internet Humor," all made accessible to scholars by a comprehensive index of more than one thousand topics. The author has filed selected photocopied pages of alphabetized, annotated items by author, or chronologically as periodicals, into a twenty-volume Archive of Mormon Humor in Literature, housed at the Center …

Epideictic Rhetoric And The Formation Of Collective Identity: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women In Praise Of Polygamy, Robbyn Thompson Scribner

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I will proceed as follows: my first chapter will be a general overview of epideictic rhetoric, focusing on the limitations of how it has traditionally been viewed and understood by theorists. At the end of that chapter I will establish a working definition of epideictic which extends traditional views about how epideictic can function in certain types of writings, focusing on the important role of the speaker in epideictic rhetoric and how it can work in enabling a community to create a collective identity. In the remainder of the thesis, I will analyze two texts in which …

Missionary Activities Of American Mormons, Peter Masteller

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

I achieved three important insights into the Mormon faith through my observations. First, I learned that Mormonism is a Christian faith. It is sometimes thought of as a fringe religious movement somehow outside the boundaries of Christianity, but in my observations I learned that it is centered on God and on the saving power of Jesus Christ. Through the process of writing this paper I might have learned how this misconception is perpetuated. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has so many characteristics which are distinctly and uniquely Mormon that these differences are emphasized to the extent that …

The Search For The Physical Cause Of Jesus Christ's Death, W. Reid Litchfield

BYU Studies

Using both modern medical knowledge and accounts in the Gospels to study Jesus' death increases our appreciation for the Atonement.

Front Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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States Of Grace, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies

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Images Of Ancient America: Visualizing Book Of Mormon Life John L. Sorenson, Allen J. Christenson

BYU Studies

John L. Sorenson. Images of Ancient America: Visualizing Book of Mormon Life. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1998. viii; 241 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95.

Brief Notices, Jed L. Woodworth, Gary L. Hatch, Beth Hamilton, John W. Welch, Cynthia Doxey

BYU Studies

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Symbols In Stone: Symbolism On The Early Temples Of The Restoration Matthew B. Brown And Paul Thomas Smith, Joseph Fielding Mcconkie

BYU Studies

Matthew B. Brown and Paul Thomas Smith. Symbols in Stone: Symbolism on the Early Temples of the Restoration. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 1997. xi; 194 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $19.95.

End Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Archaeometry Applied To Olmec Iron-Ore Beads, Steven E. Jones, Samuel T. Jones, David E. Jones

BYU Studies

Modern research tools reveal the curious workmanship used in the ancient drilling of small beads found at archaeological digs in Mesoamerica.

Evidence For A New Testament Miracle, John W. Welch

BYU Studies

Mark 8:22-26 records Jesus' healing of a blind man at Bethsaida. When the villagers brought the man to Jesus, Jesus took him outside the town, spit on the man's eyes, laid his hands on him, and asked him if he could see anything. The man answered, "I see men as trees, walking." Jesus then put his hands on the man's eyes again and made him look up, and with that the man could see clearly and normally. Jesus sent the man home, instructing him not to tell anyone back in the town. This account contains several remarkable details and raises …

The Mormon Battalion And The Gadsden Purchase, Richard O. Cowan

BYU Studies

The battalion's pioneering trek through uncharted territory left its mark on the U.S.-Mexican border and blazed a trail for the future Southern Pacific Railroad.

"I Dreamed Of Ketching Fish": The Outdoor Life Of Wilford Woodruff, Phil Murdock, Fred E. Woods

BYU Studies

Known as both a "mighty fisher" of men and an enthusiastic literal fisherman, President Woodruff melded the spiritual metaphor of fishing with the temporal reality.

The Holy Land: A Premodern Photo Tour, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

The following photographic essay presents a series of rare vistas from Jerusalem and Palestine photographed about a century ago. More changes have occurred in the Holy Land in the last one hundred years than in the previous two thousand. Pictures such as these take the viewer back into the premodern era of the land of Israel. Their unpaved streets and simple landscapes are the same that greeted President George A. Smith and his party on their visit to the Holy Land in 1873 (see Journal of Discourses, 16:93-102) or that surrounded Orson Hyde as he prayed on the Mount …

Two Or Three Witnesses, Michael Hicks

BYU Studies

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Loving God And Mankind: Rites Of Passage And The Humanities, Eric B. Shumway

BYU Studies

This article was first given as an address to the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, October 10,1996.

Sage Junction, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies

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Feasting On The Word: The Literary Testimony Of The Book Of Mormon Richard Dilworth Rust, Steven Walker

BYU Studies

Richard Dilworth Rust. Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997. viii; 293 pp. Index, notes, works cited. $16.95.

Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths Karen Armstrong; Jerusalem: The Eternal City David B. Galbraith, D. Kelly Ogden And Andrew C. Skinner, Gordon A. Madsen

BYU Studies

Karen Armstrong. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. xxi; 471 pp. Index, illustrations, maps, bibliography. $17.50.

David B. Galbraith, D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner. Jerusalem: The Eternal City. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996. xi; 493 pp. Index, illustrations, maps, appendices, bibliography. $24.95.

Captain Dan Jones And The Blind Man, Ronald D. Dennis

BYU Studies

The 1847 pamphlets, one a polemic by convert-turned-antagonist Daniel Jones and the other a rebuttal by Elder Dan Jones, give an interesting glimpse into an early LDS missionary work in Wales.

Domestic Violence, Casualene Meyer

BYU Studies

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Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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The Viper On The Hearth: Mormons, Myths And The Construction Of Heresy Terryl L. Givens, Grant Underwood

BYU Studies

Terryl L. Givens. The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x; 205 pp. Index, notes. $35.00.

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Nephite Kingship Reconsidered, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

This paper extends and updates previous efforts to understand the political dynamic of the Book of Mormon by looking at four themes or issues that can be developed from the text itself. The first is an expansion of earlier treatments of the contradictory political ideologies of the Nephites and Lamanites, which informed relations between these two groups across their thousand-year history. The second is an exploration of the historical possibility that Nephi may never, in fact, have been anointed as king of the Nephite people, which raises in turn a possible need to reassess the character of Nephite kingship. The …

The Lion Of The Lord: Essays On The Life And Service Of Brigham Young Susan Easton Black And Larry C. Porter, Thomas G. Alexander, Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr.

BYU Studies

Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, eds. The Lion of the Lord: Essays on the Life and Service of Brigham Young. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995. xii; 462 pp. Index, notes. $19.95.

Of Tethering And Flight, Sundy Watanabe

BYU Studies

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In The Rising, Nancy Baird

BYU Studies

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