This panel will discuss what Exponent II has meant to Mormon women over the years, what it has achieved, and how it has evolved and changed since it published its first issue in the early 1970s. Panelists will also discuss their vision of the organization’s future as it reaches out to a new generation of …
Event: Southwest Symposium 2010
SW10014: Book Preview/Panel: Persistence of Polygamy: A Mormon Anthology
Co-editor Newell G. Bringhurst presents an overview of this forthcoming anthology of 20 never-before-published articles about polygamy. Essays cover Joseph Smith and the beginnings of polygamy, polygamy in Utah after Joseph Smith and reactions to the practice from other restoration groups, and the perpetuation of polygamy among Mormon fundamentalists that emerged in the late nineteenth …
SW10015: The Liahona Children’s Foundation: Working to Alleviate Malnutrition in LDS Children in Developing Countries
Worldwide, an estimated 70,000 LDS children are chronically malnourished. Working in cooperation with local stake presidencies in developing countries, the Liahona Children’s Foundation is attempting to alleviate malnutrition and illiteracy among LDS children. Malnourished children suffer life-long cognitive and physical impairment and are much more likely to be dependent on both their government and the …
SW10016: All Hell is Boiling Over: The Utah War’s California History
This presentation examines neglected aspects of the Utah War, when in early 1858, the Buchanan administration sought to reinforce Col. Albert Sidney Johnston’s Utah expedition–then snowbound at Fort Bridger–with a massive infusion of troops into Utah from the Pacific Coast, especially California. The paper tells the story of this plan’s origins, its sometimes bizarre development, …
SW10001: LDS Women in the Twentieth Century: Witnesses to a Changing Church
This session features excerpts from Claremont Oral History Program interviews begun in 2009 to record and preserve the voices of Mormon women. Sponsored by the Singer Foundation, the project aims for 100 extensive transcribed interviews that deal with personal biography, attitudes toward LDS women’s issues, and Church experience. The interviews are conducted by Mormon Studies …
SW10017: The Return of the Antis: A Comparative Study of the Rhetoric of Early Christian and Mormon Polemicists
Since the days of antiquity, people have consulted Aristotle’s work, Rhetoric, and used its theories to overcome political enemies. Rhetorical scrutiny was directed particularly at new religious movements that paved new paths to Rod. Separated by nearly two millennia, early Christianity and Mormonism both struggled against a tide of polemicists’ criticisms. This presentation compares the …
SW10002: Wrestling With Jacob’s Angel: What this
This devotional will take the form of a narrative exegesis which will explore the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel, and what it might tell us about our own relationship with god. Michael Vinson
SW10018: Personal Iconography: Expressions of One Artist’s
A given supposition of logic and philosophy states that the intangible inner dialogue an individual engages in must needs find tangible expression—song, story, art, cooking, acts of service, play acting—in the material world if the inner dialogue is to advance the individual’s understanding of self in day-to-day living. Often people accomplish this by adopting or …
SW10003:
Some women attempting to escape polygamy have complained that LDS bishops they consulted advised them to return to their husbands because “We are all going to have to live polygamy someday.” LDS theology distinguishes between “higher” laws—what god really wants us to do—and “lower” laws we settle for because the higher law cannot be practiced …
SW10019: Rising Scholars: What’s Emerging from CGU’s Mormon Studies Program?
The Mormon studies program at Claremont Graduate University took years to conceive, plan, and fund. What’s been happening since the program commenced? We’ll hear a status update about this groundbreaking endeavor in Mormon studies. What kinds of students is the program attracting? What kinds of projects and research are Mormon studies faculty and students involved …