How Mormonism Shaped America
To those unfamiliar with the faith, it appears that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is enjoying a moment of fame in American culture: the…
To those unfamiliar with the faith, it appears that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is enjoying a moment of fame in American culture: the…
The portrayals of the Mormon family in popular culture are schizophrenic: it is either a prosperous and proud, self-congratulatory nuclear family or a secretive cult in which…
In recent years, Mormonism has been the focus of unprecedented media interest. What some have called “The Mormon Moment,” spurred by Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and…
Mormon Scholarship The obstacles confronting one to write about Mormon culture, specifically its religion and its relationship to liberal democracy are enormous: the conceptualization of liberal democracy…
Settlers of Jackson County, Missouri imposed their will on the contiguous landscape with arbitrary survey lines. With possessive place names like Sibley and descriptive ones like Independence,…
Although all states in the Union are part of a shared political and cultural heritage, Utah’s constitution, written in 1895, reflects much of the uniqueness of Utah’s…
LDS in the USA: Mormonism and the Making of American Culture. Lee Trepanier and Lynita K. Newswander. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012. There is a…