By ChristopherAugust 14, 2008
The Juvenile Instructor is pleased to announce our latest guest blogger, Brett D. Brett describes himself as follows:
I am an MA student in History at BYU hoping to graduate in either April or August of 2009 and with plans of going on for a PhD in American history. I have worked for two years for BYU’s Education in Zion exhibit as a researcher. I am also currently working as a researcher for Ron Walker’s forthcoming biography of Brigham Young. I am writing my thesis on the progressive era elements of the Church’s educational programs from 1885 to 1935. A registered menace to society, I occupy my time watching BYU sports, particularly football.
Please join us here at the JI in welcoming Brett.
By ChristopherAugust 6, 2008
Yesterday over at Religion in U.S. History, Paul Harvey posted a map of “Leading Church Bodies, 2000,” taken from Mark Silk and Andrew Walsh’s fantastic Religion by Region series, and rhetorically asks, “Is the South still a cultural region?”
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By ChristopherJuly 30, 2008
In his dissertation on the popular historical consciousness of Mormons in the American West, Eric Eliason suggested that the “commemoration of the cooperative and purposeful Mormon pioneer migration has achieved a particularly well-developed form” among modern Mormons — “the July 24th Days of ’47 celebration in Salt Lake City . . . [and] similar Pioneer Day events [that] claim the public space of Main Street in over 80 Western communities.”
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By ChristopherJuly 23, 2008
I just received word that the next issue (47:2) of BYU Studies “will be a special issue of important documents about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, some never before seen.”
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By ChristopherJuly 21, 2008
(Just in case you didn’t already read about this here, here, or here).
CALL FOR PAPERS
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By ChristopherJuly 17, 2008
Last night, a few bloggers from the JI, along with some other friends, informally gathered for some good food (chips and Jared T.’s homemade salsa … mmm) and good conversation.
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By ChristopherJuly 8, 2008
I returned on Sunday from a trip to Korea. My wife and I joined her mother, three younger brothers, and 15 others from the boys’ Taekwondo school in New Jersey on a two-week guided tour of South Korea. I came back with a scruffy beard, an intense longing for an American cheeseburger, and a head full of random thoughts on all things religious in Korea. I thought JI readers might be interested in a few of those thoughts, and that the blog might be a good place to get feedback to some of my rambling reflections.
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By ChristopherJune 15, 2008
Please join the Juvenile Instructor in welcoming Edje as the newest guest blogger to the JI. Edje is a regular commenter here at JI (and other sites around the ‘nacle), and is, like the rest of us here (except for ol’ man Taysom), a grad student in history. Here is what he has to say about himself:
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By ChristopherJune 11, 2008
Mormon historians’ various analyses of Nauvoo usually include a line or two about what became of Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints left town. In The Story of the Latter-day Saints, James Allen and Glen Leonard summarized post-Mormon Nauvoo by explaining that after the Saints headed west, “the temple was shamefully desecrated by mobs; finally, in October 1848, an incendiary set fire to that magnificent sacred structure.
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By ChristopherMay 19, 2008
Recently, while reading Randall Stephens’ excellent new book, The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (review here), I came across the following passage, which naturally intrigued me.
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