By July 16, 2009
While continuing my research on Mormonism in the South this morning, I came across the story of a debate between some young Mormon missionaries and a couple of Protestant ministers in North Carolina in 1900. The local newspaper contained the following summary of the debate:
By July 15, 2009
Fraternity with monkeys was (and remains) a standard trope of racializing discourse. So, in my ongoing efforts to (a) understand late nineteenth-century Mormon identity construction and (b) graduate, I poked around for comparisons between Mormons and animals in the 19th century. I was pretty excited when I found a baboon labeled “mormon.” I thought that, together with Mormon crickets, I had a high-protein entrée for my thesis. I mean, if I were manufacturing monstrosities for 19th-century anti-Mormons, it would be hard to beat the prolific, ravenous, cannibalistic Mormon cricket and a certified Mormon, polygamous baboon.
By July 14, 2009
Greetings, JI readers. Tomorrow the polls close over at Mormon Matters. As you may know, the Juvenile Instructor is up for #2 Best Group Blog and the race is tight. So if you feel so inclined, go to MM and cast your vote!
By July 14, 2009
Mormon History Association
2010 Independence Missouri Conference
Call for Papers
The Home and the Homeland:
Families in Diverse Mormon Traditions
The forty-fifth annual conference of the Mormon History Association will be held May 27-30, 2010, at the Kansas City Sports Complex Hotel in Kansas City, MO. It has been twenty-five years since the last MHA conference was held in Missouri. The 2010 theme, ?The Home and the Homeland: Families in Diverse Mormon Traditions? recognizes the family as a central social and religious institution within Mormon traditions.
By July 14, 2009
J. Stapley tipped me off recently that Laurie Maffly-Kipp is one of the newest members of the Journal of Mormon History Board of Editors. Dr. Maffly-Kipp is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Where our own Stan is headed for his Ph. D. program). Along with her contributions to African-American religion, she has contributed to the study of Mormons and Protestants in the Pacific Basin in lectures and articles, being the coeditor (with Reid Nielson) of Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier. She also recently presented at the Sacred Space Symposium at BYU on the preparation of the Chilean people for the opening of the Santiago, Chile temple.
By July 11, 2009
I have in the past devoted significant wordiage to the subtle intersections between the religiocultural paradoxes of the Wasatch Front, the deeper ideologies of the Mormon mind, and pro basketball. These arguments, one hopes, have made the world such a place that the reasons why Lance Allred’s new book should be immediately embraced by all students of such things are always already self-evident. But in case they are not, I here offer a few lines of explication.
By July 10, 2009
This announcement comes from Benchmark books, which I’ll post here for your reference. This is the latest fulfillment from the forthcoming list I made last year. I’m pleased to see this biography of such an important figure and hope for continued work on some of the lesser-known apostles of this and subsequent periods.
By July 9, 2009
[What follows is an extract from a section of my paper presented at the 2009 Pratt Summer Seminar, titled “‘Here Was an End to Mysticism’: Divine Embodiment, Human Corporality, and Parley Pratt.”]
By July 9, 2009
I recently received the latest Utah Historical Quarterly, and here’s a run down of what you’ll find.
The first article is “Julius F. Taylor and the Broad Ax of Salt Lake City” by Michael S. Sweeney
From the UHQ website (subsequent quotes also from this site):
By July 8, 2009
Almost everyone with the least smidge of north-of-the-Rio-Grande Mormon exposure knows that, in a Mormon context, “Happy Valley” means… well, not everyone agrees.
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