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 …
Speaker: Claudia L. Bushman
SW10013: The Mormon Feminist Community of Exponent II: Its History, Its Legacy, Its Future
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 …
SL10391: 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 to collect 100 extensive transcribed interviews that deal with personal biography, attitudes toward LDS women’s issues, and Church experience. The interviews are conducted by Mormon …
SL09332 Panel: Remembering the Longfellow Chapel
Participants will reflect on the meaning of the Cambridge Chapel situated on Longfellow Park just outside Boston. For generations of Latter-day Saints, this meetinghouse represented the center of their faith, spirituality, and community. Panelists will consider the meaning of sacred space, the role of undergraduate and graduate education in Mormon identity, the nature of Latter-day …
SL09332 Panel: Remembering the Longfellow Chapel
Participants will reflect on the meaning of the Cambridge Chapel situated on Longfellow Park just outside Boston. For generations of Latter-day Saints, this meetinghouse represented the center of their faith, spirituality, and community. Panelists will consider the meaning of sacred space, the role of undergraduate and graduate education in Mormon identity, the nature of Latter-day …
SL09312 Panel: In Memoriam: Truman G. Madsen
Truman Madsen left a significant imprint on Mormon theology and philosophy. Come hear from friends, colleagues, and former students about the lessons learned from this influential Mormon thinker. Following panelists’ remarks, audience members will also have time to share their remembrances. Karen Marguerite Moloney, Bill Heersink, Claudia L. Bushman, Donald Q. Cannon, Jake Zollinger, Charles …
Re-Reading a New World Scripture: The Reader’s Book of Mormon
Re-Reading a New World Scripture: The Reader’s Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon has been printed in many shapes and forms. The newest is The Reader’s Book of Mormon, published this spring by Signature Press. Patterned after the Pocket Canon Bible, this edition, edited by Robert A. Rees and the late Eugene England, consists …
Why We Stay
Why We Stay 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 the Latter-day Saint …
Growing Up Mormon in the Outland
Growing Up Mormon in the Outland The Mormons gathered in the nineteenth century and dispersed in the twentieth, spilling over the mountains to the west coast and elsewhere. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints then launched an effort to transport Mormon culture whole to distant members. This culture bloomed in the 1940s and …