By November 7, 2009
The comments on my last post got me thinking about a few things, particularly the fact that the subject of the post studied under the venerable historian of the English Reformation, Eamon Duffy. In the second edition to Duffy’s monumental The Stripping of the Altars, which present the English Reformation as an unwanted destruction of the English people’s traditoinal religion, Duffy makes the following disclosure:
By November 7, 2009
Announcing the Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association.
Mission Statement:
The Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association was established to foster the academic study of Mormonism among graduate and undergraduate students in the Salt Lake City area. SLMSSA activities and events will help students network, keep abreast of developments in the academic study of Mormonism, facilitate interaction between students and established scholars of Mormonism, and generally promote academic development.
By November 6, 2009
This will probably be it. I was gonna go through and edit my Quinn notes on Clark, but it’s just rehash of his bio, so if you’ve read that, you’ve got it. If you haven’t read that, you’d be better off reading it than my crappy notes. Unfortunately I was not able to go today, so I don’t know how it turned out and I will not have notes.
By November 6, 2009
I’ll have some thoughts and reflections at the end. Armand Mauss’ presentation was definitely the best as it was basically the only one that actually sought to analyze the data presented. Wesley Johnson also makes an effort in that direction, but I think that Mauss’ criticisms will bear out a lot of the same issues I took with his presentation. I’ll have Mauss’ stuff in the next part.
By November 5, 2009
From the Sunstone website:
By November 5, 2009
Brian Birch Introductory Remarks
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since we began having these annual Mormon Studies Conferences. Eugene England spearheaded Mormons studies here at UVU 11 years ago, we?re trying hared to perpetuate his legacy, and see his vision through. We?ve seen in the last decade dramatic changes in the academic study of Mormonism. As you know, a handful of institutions have recognized the academic study of Mormonism as something important in the academy and worthwhile to support.
By November 4, 2009
In thumbing through Gwenfair Walters Adams’s Visions in Late Medieval England (Brill, 2007), I was surprised to see the following as the last line of her acknowledgements: “And ultimately, I am most grateful to God.”
Having never seen this before my question are 1) has anybody else ever seen such a thing, and 2) would you ever consider doing such a thing? Why or why not?
By November 3, 2009
I’ve recently been researching the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, a late 18th- early 19th-century thinker who represented the transition between German enlightenment and Romantic thought. Schleiermacher, long recognized as an important sage in German culture, has only recently been given due attention in the English-speaking world. Thus, the literature on his theology is somewhat scant in the American academy (save for his demonization by 20th-century neo-conservatives like Karl Barth), especially when compared to someone like Joseph Smith who has long been scrutinized, praised, or overall engaged by scholars both within and without the Mormon tradition. Because of the relative newness of the topic, however, the narrative and frameworks in which to understand Schleiermacher’s thought is still being developed. Several important questions are just now beginning to be asked—questions which, surprisingly, still have relevance to Mormon history today.
By November 2, 2009
Get out your magnifying glass…or wait until information shows up on the BYU Studies site.
By November 2, 2009
Just a reminder of a great event happening this week! See the organizers’ site for the full schedule (I like the printer friendly version on that page). I plan to be there and taking notes which I will post on the JI.
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