Lunchtime Laughs ‘Beyond Free Agency and Dignity”- The case for the canonization of B. F. Skinner’s works. Plus the really funny bit about missionary work and tithing. Also, comical remarks about Moses, but nothing insulting. I am as fond of Moses as the next guy. — Jeff Hagen Glenn Corbett’s musical performance spoofs the strangeness …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2001
Women in Religious Studies
Women in Religious Studies More women are pursuing advanced degrees in religious studies than ever before and a number of Mormon women seem to be following suit. This panel is comprised of Mormon women who are doing work in religious studies and/or Mormon studies. They will describe how they became interested in studying religion, what …
Virtually Mormon: Mormons and the Internet
Virtually Mormon: Mormons and the Internet From LDS-Net and Mormon-L to the new official LDS website, Mormon cyberspace has experienced explosive growth in the last decade. There are today thousands of Mormon websites and hundreds of online LDS communities around the world, and the Mormon presence on the Internet affects millions of people. This panel …
The Globe Editorial and Mormon Feminist Activism
The Globe Editorial and Mormon Feminist Activism In October 2000, Mormon feminists made history by publishing a group statement in the Boston Globe. What began as a private feminist e-mail discussion in September 2000 quickly caught fire and within two weeks became an editorial with fifty-six signatures. The editorial was re-published one week later in …
Exporting Utah’s Theocracy Since 1975: Mormon Organizational Behavior and America’s Culture Wars
Exporting Utah’s Theocracy Since 1975: Mormon Organizational Behavior and America’s Culture Wars Contrary to most theocracies, Mormon Utah has always required democratic participation for its theocracy. Two major transitions bracketed the twentieth-century manifestation of Utah Mormon theocracy. Beginning in the 1890s, Utah’s democratic theocracy had to confront significant political dissent from faithful Mormons and to …
Elementals
Elementals This session will consist of a reading of ‘ Elementals: Auto-Reductive Sonnets in Major and Minor Modes,” a collection of original poetry inter-cut with selected quotations from such Church writers as Parley P. Pratt, John A. Widstoe, and Hugh Nibley. Taken together, the poems (which have been described as “nuclear-fused sonnets, free radicals one …
Wayne Booth as Wanderer
Wayne Booth as Wanderer Wayne Booth is one of our nation’s most honored teachers. He is also considered by many one of our finest scholars. He has published numerous books, several of which, including ‘The Rhetoric of Fiction” and “The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction,” are standard reading in college English departments. He …
Coming Home: Challenges Faced By Returning Missionaries
Coming Home: Challenges Faced By Returning Missionaries They walk off the airplane into the arms of friends and family and gobble their first burger and shake in years. They report to their stake presidency, give a homecoming talk in their ward, usually on a bishop-assigned topic, and for a few months, may partner with a …
Ethical Theory for the Believing Mormon
Ethical Theory for the Believing Mormon Philosophers over the millenniums have developed several schools of philosophical ethics–some involving God, some not. Because some have tried to develop ethical theories that do not depend on revelation, Bruce R. McConkie has called philosophy a religion whose followers are apostates. Now that you’ve been warned, come hear some …
Christ and Culture in Conflict: The Gospel and the Homosexual
Christ and Culture in Conflict: The Gospel and the Homosexual Those who believe the gospel of Jesus Christ regards homosexuality as an evil to be condemned usually point to various scriptures in the Bible and portray the controversy today as a conflict between the gospel and a modern culture that has grown more tolerant of …