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Secular Learning In A Spiritual Environment, Merrill J. Bateman

BYU Studies

Diligence and obedience allow the spirit and the mind to work together to discover understand and integrate truth in its various spheres.

Cutting The Last Hay, Warren Hatch

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Development And Validation Of The Missionary Language Performance Test, Blair E. Bateman

Theses and Dissertations

Performance tests are an effective way of assessing examinees' ability to perform specific job-related tasks. This thesis details the development and validation of a performance test designed to measure LDS missionaries' ability to perform missionary tasks in a foreign language, the Missionary Language Performance Test (MLPT).

The development of the test involved identifying a set of relevant missionary tasks, specifying the criteria to be evaluated, designing test items, devising a procedure for sampling tasks and for administering and rating the test, and training raters to administer the test. Three separate studies were conducted to validate the test: (a) both the …

The Revelation, Martin B. Hickman

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

President Young Writes Jefferson Davis About The Gunnison Massacre Affair, Ronald W. Walker

BYU Studies

Detailed evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests the Mormons were not guilty of conspiracy and complicity in the 1853 Gunnison Massacre.

Kidnapped From That Land: The Government Raids On The Short Creek Polygamists By Martha Sonntag Bradley, Ray Jay Davis

BYU Studies

Martha Sonntag Bradley. Kidnapped from That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993. xii; 260 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. $29.95.

The Ritualization Of Mormon History And Other Essays By Davis Bitton, Steven L. Olsen

BYU Studies

Davis Bitton. The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. xii; 194 pp. Index, bibliographies. $27.50.

My Best For The Kingdom: History And Autobiography Of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman By William G. Hartley, Michael N. Landon

BYU Studies

William G. Hartley. My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman. Salt Lake City: Aspen Book, 1993. xiii; 511 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95.

Father, Forgive Us, Randall Hall

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Behind The Iron Curtain: Recollections Of Latter-Day Saints In East Germany, 1945-1989, Garold N. Davis, Norma S. Davis

BYU Studies

Personal interviews with East German Saints, who survived World War II and rebuilt Zion under Communism, document moving stories of faith and dedication.

When You See Me, Donnell Hunter

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Old Language, Dawn Baker Brimley

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Ravens At Island In The Sky Canyonlands, Utah, Dixie Partridge

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No abstract provided.

Resurrection Day In Tallahassee, Casualene Meyer

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Great Bean-Count Schism, Scott R. Parkin

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Democratization Of American Christianity By Nathan O. Hatch; Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America By James Davison Hunter, Ralph C. Hancock

BYU Studies

Nathan O. Hatch. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv; 312 pp. Notes, index. $15.00.

James Davison Hunter. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1991. xiii; 416 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $15.00.

The Diaries Of Charles Ora Card: The Canadian Years, 1886-1903 Edited By Donald G. Godfrey And Brigham Y. Card, William G. Hartley

BYU Studies

Donald G. Godfrey and Brigham Y. Card, eds. The Diaries of Charles Ora Card: The Canadian Years, 1886-1903. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993. xxxviii; 644 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, index. $45.00.

A Storyteller In Zion: Essays And Speeches By Orson Scott Card, Thomas C. Clark

BYU Studies

Orson Scott Card. A Storyteller in Zion: Essays and Speeches by Orson Scott Card. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1993. 215 pp. $11.95.

End Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Adolescents' Use Of Discretionary Time: A Time Use Study Of The Central Utah Area, Rebecca Hirschi

Theses and Dissertations

This study provides Central Utah school and recreation leaders with local data on which to base their program development by collecting and analyzing data on adolescents' use of time, and to compare local statistics with national data. The research included participants from Nephi, Spanish Fork, and Provo schools. Each participant completed 7 days of a leisure time diary, which detailed daily activities. Single sample t-tests on the data revealed that Central Utah adolescents' time use is significantly different from national statistics. The differences in the statistics indicate that school and recreation leaders need local data on which to base adolescent …

A Qualitative Analysis Of The Non-Lds Experience In Utah, Jesse Smith Bushman

Theses and Dissertations

Utah's foundation under the influence of the LDS church, and the continued influence of the majority LDS population in the state make this area unique in the United States. This situation makes life for the non-LDS in Utah somewhat different than in other areas. Through a series of interviews with members of the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist (National Baptist Convention), Buddhist, and Jewish faiths, this thesis produced a large body of qualitative data concerning the non-LDS experience in Utah.

The experience of non-LDS people in Utah can by typified, with a few exceptions, as a traditional majority/minority interaction. Elements of …

"Yet I Must Submit": Mormon Women's Perspectives On Death And Dying 1847-1900, Julie Paige Hemming Savage

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores Mormon women's experiences with death as revealed in their personal writings from 1847-1900. The study includes an examination of women's involvement in caring for the sick and tending to the dead, as well as an exploration of women's personal reactions to death. A careful reading of Mormon women's writings from this period reveals that Mormonism equipped believers with powerful doctrines and rituals which helped women cope with the sorrow and profound grief that accompanied the deaths of those they loved. In addition, members living in Mormon communities rendered invaluable physical, emotional, and spiritual support to each other …

A Qualitative Study Of Interpretive Communities Among Lds Women, Oleah Clegg

Theses and Dissertations

Recent studies have shown that a number of researchers have turned to the concept of the interpretive community to explain how audiences interpret the media within the context of their everyday experiences (Biocca, 1989; Gunter, 1989; Lindlof, 1989, 1992; Radway, 1984; Schrøder, 1994). D. A. Stout (1993) conducted a study that discovered three interpretive communities among LDS women who watch television, establishing that interpretive communities do exist among religious media audiences.

In 1994, K. Schrøder showed that the interpretive community can be further understood by taking a "social semiotic" approach to analyzing interpretive community members' social interaction with other communities. …

Beginning With The Keynote Address On Metaphor And Ideology, Kathryn R. Ashworth

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Advice On Correct Astronomy, Steve Peck

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Cooperation, Conflict, And Compromise: Women, Men, And The Environment In Salt Lake City, 1890-1930, Thomas G. Alexander

BYU Studies

Through efforts that crossed religious, political, and gender lines, Salt Lake City citizens realized some success in clearing their acrid air and promoting a "City Beautiful" and functional.

Four Lds Views On Harold Bloom, M. Gerald Bradford, Eugene England, Truman G. Madsen, Charles Radall Paul, Richard F. Haglund

BYU Studies

Harold Bloom. The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. New York: Touchstone with Simon and Schuster, 1993. 271 pp. Index. Paperback, $12.00.

Whither Mormon Drama? Look First To A Theatre, Eric Samuelsen

BYU Studies

We need drama that looks with clear eyes at the Mormon world while occasionally seeing beyond to celestial glory. But such a drama would require a subsidized theatre to nurture it.