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 …
Speaker: Armand L. Mauss
SW08012: THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT GORDON B. HINCKLEY
THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT GORDON B. HINCKLEY In this session, panelists and audience members are invited to share both personal and analytical reflections about the life and legacy of President Gordon B. Hinckley, who died 27 January 2008. What will be the lasting legacy of this beloved prophet’s presidency and leadership during his long-time Church …
Mormonism in the Academy: Prospects and Challenges
Mormonism in the Academy: Prospects and Challenges A recent Boston Globe story led with the headline, ‘Colleges scramble to offer curriculum on Mormon religion.’ While certainly not a fixture in the academy, Mormonism in the past few years has experienced a dramatic rise in academic interest, which in turn has led to the formation of …
Maturing and Enduring: Dialogue and Its Readers After Forty Years
In the Spring 1987 Dialogue, a general survey of subscribers was published under the title, Robert W. Reynolds, Ph.D., Armand L. Mauss, Ph.D., John Dewey Remy, Panelists
Why We Stay
Why We Stay (recording: late start) This perennially well-received session features the stories of those who have chosen to remain active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the face of many difficult challenges to traditional faith. How have these members wrestled with their faith and yet emerged more determined than ever to be a part of …
AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS. RADICAL ORIGINS BY VAL RUST
Val Rust’s new book, Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors seeks to understand the first members of Joseph Smith’s unique movement and what might predispose them to join such a “radical” group. Rust searches for answers in the ancestry of early converts, arguing that those who came before influenced the beliefs and …
PROGRESSIVE ORTHODOXY: A NEW CHAPTER IN MORMON ASSIMILATION?
Recent years have seen the rise of a Mormon intellectual movement I call “progressive orthodoxy.” Exemplified most prominently by the limited geography model for the Book of Mormon, progressive orthodoxy seeks to affirm LDS faith claims in ways that are credible by scholarly standards. Progressive orthodox scholars thus seek to balance two opposing forces that …
All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
NW3002, Mauss’s comments will be based on his latest book, which summarizes four decades of his research on the changing understandings expressed among LDS leaders and members about the spiritual importance of lineage. Fifteen copies of the book will be available for purchase for $30 (regularly $37) at the symposium. Armand L. Mauss
ALL ABRAHAM’S CHILDREN: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
What is the spiritual import of race and lineage? How have LDS views, both among leaders and members, changed? Mauss will speak about these issues and others related to this fascinating but sensitve subject which he has covered so well in his latest book, All Abraham’s Children. Audience questions welcomed. Armand L. Mauss
Beyond The 1978 Mormon Black Revelation: Two Perspectives
Beyond The 1978 Mormon Black Revelation: Two Perspectives Darron T. Smith, Armand L. Mauss, Newell G. Bringhurst