The Turkmens’ Magic World View While years of Soviet domination added new elements to the intellectual life and culture of the Central Asian peoples, it at the same time reinforced the region’s geographic isolation and served to lessen the impact of external secularizing influences. As a result, many ancient traditions and values were preserved little …
Event: DC Symposium 2000
Beyond Liberalism: Mormonism and Liberation Theology
Beyond Liberalism: Mormonism and Liberation Theology Within the last 50 years or so a number of religions have developed a well-defined and specific theology which challenges many of the injustices in the world today. The term Liberation Theology refers to political activists whose activism is based on religious values. Liberation Theology is not passive, nor …
Pillars Of My Faith
Pillars Of My Faith This is Sunstone’s perennially most popular session. Here speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective session is about the things that matter most. Charlie Cannone, Rebecca Chandler, Elbert Peck
The Restoration of Some Things
The Restoration of Some Things In 1840 Joseph Smith declared that animal sacrifices would be restored once the Nauvoo Temple was completed and that this was necessary to bring to pass the ‘restoration of all things.” While modern Mormons would most likely be shocked at the thought of including animal sacrifice in their Temple worship, …
Hold to the Ironic Rod
Hold to the Ironic Rod Robert Kirby
I Heard It On The Grapevine: The Positive Uses of Church Gossip
I Heard It On The Grapevine: The Positive Uses of Church Gossip This paper examines the ways gossip functions as a ‘speech act,” one that transforms the relationship between the two speakers. The paper will also examine how this type of unofficial talk influences the dynamics of a social group — such as a ward …
Mormonism and Multiculturalism: Some Thoughts on the Book of Esther
Mormonism and Multiculturalism: Some Thoughts on the Book of Esther This meditation will begin, not with Esther’s ultimate triumph, when she announces her cultural identity and saves her people, but with her initial failure to acknowledge her Judaism to her husband and her peers. It will try to explain why people–and especially Mormon people–are sometimes …
Marvelous Work & Blunders: Mormon Humor Readings
Marvelous Work & Blunders: Mormon Humor Readings Eloise Bell will read a few selections from ‘Madame Ridiculous and Lady Sublime,’ her new collection of essays to be published in the fall by Signature Books. Ed Snow will likely read from his book, ‘Of Curious Workmanship: Musings on Things Mormon’, which was just released from Signature …
Thoughts On Being Mormon and Human
Thoughts On Being Mormon and Human Eugene England
Barbie-shop Network, The Sweeney Sisters
Barbie-shop Network, The Sweeney Sisters Janelle Clark, Becky Linford, Jinelle Monk