By June 15, 2024
Congrats to all this year’s winners! If you’re going to buy, support university presses and independent bookstores! Personally, I’m a big fan of Benchmark Books.
BEST BOOK AWARD
Stephen C. Taysom, Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023).
By May 21, 2024
APPLY HERE (see info beginning in next paragraph)
By April 23, 2024
From friend-of-JI Valeska Griswold:
Registrations close May 1st due to requirements from the venue as the venues are government buildings and we have to submit a list of participants to them and this will also remove any entrance fees at those locations.
The tours will meet at 5:30 am and return around 9 pm on May 26th. The meeting location is TBD. Those who signed up for the tour on the registration form will get meeting details emailed directly to them in the next week or so.
By April 18, 2024
LINK TO AD HERE
MUST HAVE GENEALOGICAL CREDENTIAL
Assistant Director, Center for Family History and Genealogy (CFHG)
The Center for Family History and Genealogy (CFHG) provides both free quality online research and resources for public use as well as extraordinary mentored-learning experiences for students learning the science and methods of family history research. We are now seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Assistant Director to collaborate with the Center director and play a vital role in student mentoring, center projects, and community outreach. Your commitment to the Center’s mission and your ability to foster excellence will contribute greatly to the experience of our students and make a difference in the important area of family history.
What you’ll do in this position:
By April 8, 2024
The Latter-day Saint tradition maintains a finite conception of God that challenges key tenets of classical Christian theism. God is understood to have a literal body of flesh and bone (D&C 130:22) and to relate to human beings in exceptionally passable and interactive ways (Jacob 5:7 & Moses 7:29). God is said to have created human beings in the divine likeness such that it is possible for humanity to become divine (Moses 1:39). God’s design for humanity is to create the conditions for spiritual growth and to labor with them toward the glorification of both (Jacob 5:72). This conference will explore divine finitude in the Latter-day Saint tradition and seeks to examine and build on the theological writings of thinkers such as B. H. Roberts, David Paulsen, Truman Madsen, Eugene England, Lowell Bennion, Sterling McMurrin, Margaret Toscano, and Fiona & Terryl Givens, among others.
By April 1, 2024
The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
invites applications for grants to conduct research in its archival, art, and artifact
collections in Salt Lake City, Utah. These grants are intended to offset travel and
research expenses for performing research at the Church History Library and/or
Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. We hope the grants will stimulate the examination of
underrepresented groups and topics in Latter-day Saint history, such as women, youth,
children, individuals outside the United States, immigrant groups, the globalization of
the Church, and twentieth and twenty-first century history. We encourage all scholars
who are interested in Latter-day Saint history, Latter-day Saint art history, or Latter-day
Saint studies to apply, regardless of their affiliation with the Church or previous
experience in researching Latter-day Saint history.
By March 16, 2024
If you’re into Mormon history, someone you know has likely asked for resources on learning about the history of the Kirtland Temple and what the sale of the sacred site means for Latter-day Saints and members of the Community of Christ. Here’s a starter pack for you:
By March 10, 2024
DATE: October 10-12, 2024
LOCATION: Utah State University Inn
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 3, 2024
SUBMISSION EMAIL: bookofmormonsa (@) gmail.com
The Book of Mormon Studies Association (BoMSA) is pleased to announce its eighth annual meeting, to
be held on October 10-12, 2024, at Utah State University. The event is sponsored by USU’s Department
of Religious Studies and with thanks to Patrick Mason, the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History
and Culture.
By February 18, 2024
Please be sure to fill out the registration form if you plan to attend the Juanita Brooks Conference! It helps us plan the conference more effectively and make the most of our resources.
By February 14, 2024
The Mormon Studies Unit welcomes papers and/or panels on a variety of themes and topics relating to the Mormon tradition, broadly defined. The proposals should analyze the material in terms of the academic study of religion. For the 2024 conference, we propose a few themes:
Open Call: Other papers or panels dealing with aspects of Mormonism not mentioned in the previous call will also be considered. Papers may be selected for their relevance to themes which emerge among other submissions.
Panel proposals welcome.
© 2024 – Juvenile Instructor
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