The LDS Church often patrols or limits the proliferation of meaning by using paratexts, “verbal frames,” or “symbolic packages.” in “The loss of the Creature,” Walker Percy discusses the way this “general surrender of the horizon to those experts within whose competence a particular segment of the horizon is thought to lie” amounts to a …
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A Testimony Of Motherhood: LDS Response To Changing Women’s Roles, 1940-2006
A Testimony Of Motherhood: LDS Response To Changing Women’s Roles, 1940-2006 Most conservative religions objected to the movement of women out of the household in the 1960s, but doctrines linked to the practice of polygamy made changing gender roles particularly challenging for the LDS Church. To understand Church responses to this crisis, I analyzed all …
What Does God Look Like? The Role of Visual Image in Belief
What Does God Look Like? The Role of Visual Image in Belief If immediate impressions of God the Father’s countenance, hair color, age, race, voice, wardrobe, or dwelling place come to mind, chances are good that Michelangelo, Charlton Heston, or an Ensign illustration helped put those images into your head. History has proven that there …
Gender-Identity Construction in the ‘Ensign:’ Visual Images of Mormon Women
Gender-Identity Construction in the ‘Ensign:’ Visual Images of Mormon Women
Charting the Changes: Special Women’s Issues of the Ensign and Dialogue
Charting the Changes: Special Women’s Issues of the Ensign and Dialogue