By J StuartNovember 24, 2024
Provo, Utah – The world’s largest database of Latter-day Saint art just got bigger. The Book of Mormon Art Catalog (https://bookofmormonartcatalog.org) now includes not only visual art inspired by the Book of Mormon but also art based on Church history, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.
Since the catalog launched in 2022, it has grown to include more than 8,000 artworks. The website organizes Latter-day Saint art from the 19th century to today and from artists around the globe. Careful research by the Book of Mormon Art Catalog team has brought these pieces together from public and private collections, archives, museums, and the holdings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other branches of the Restoration.
Users of the free website can choose to explore “Book of Mormon Art” or “Restoration History & Scripture Art.” Within each section, the updated website has six helpful browsing categories—1) artist’s name, 2) year of creation, 3) artist’s country, 4) scripture reference, 5) topic, and 6) style or technique.
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By J StuartNovember 18, 2024
Ninth Biennial Faith and Knowledge Conference
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
May 16-18, 2025
The Faith and Knowledge Conference was established in 2007 by Latter-day Saint scholar Richard Bushman. Its mission is to bring together graduate students and early career scholars from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Community of Christ, and other faith traditions that follow Joseph Smith. The conference aims to explore the interactions between religious faith and scholarship for members of restoration movements. During the past eight meetings, students have shared their experiences as Mormon scholars in the academy with an eye toward the challenges and insights resulting from the intersection of faith and scholarship. These papers and conversations have provided thought-provoking historical, exegetical, and theoretical perspectives, as well as compelling models for locating discipleship through scholarly disciplines.
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By J StuartNovember 18, 2024
Hi Friends,
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By J StuartNovember 7, 2024
Submit your work (or a colleague’s work) for an MHA Award! Publishers: submit your author’s work!
Here are the awards for this year’s cycle:
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By J StuartOctober 14, 2024
Politics and Religion:
The Impact of Governance and Government on the Restoration Movements from 1830 to the Present
September 18-21, 2025
Independence, Missouri
Our conference in 2025 falls on the centennial anniversary of debates about supreme directional control in the RLDS church and the “Scopes Monkey Trial” on the national level. We will also be meeting at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, at the heart of a landscape where tensions between politics and religion have had a lasting impact on the community. Papers might include church leaders’ interactions with US presidents, reactions to Supreme Court rulings, social justice issues, attitudes towards scientific developments, the role of religion in education, political demographics of Restoration religions, institutional statements of party advocacy or neutrality, and more. With politics on everyone’s mind these days, there will be plenty to debate!
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By J StuartOctober 8, 2024
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The Mormon History Association invites you to Ogden, Utah for its sixtieth annual conference to be held June 5-8, 2025. Situated on the Ogden and Weber Rivers near where they join the Great Salt Lake, and nicknamed “Junction City” when it became the connecting point between numerous railroad lines, Ogden has long been a site of junctions. Long before Latter-day Saints dreamed of an American Zion in the Great Basin, ancestors of Shoshone and other indigenous peoples criss-crossed the region, establishing trade networks and sharing languages, settlements, and cultures.
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By J StuartOctober 1, 2024
The keynote speaker for the Juanita Brooks Conference on Utah History will be Dr. Matthew J. Grow! Grow is Managing Director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In that capacity, he leads a team of history professionals who collect documents and artifacts, preserve them, and promote understanding of the Church’s past through a publishing program, a research library, a museum, and many historic sites. Grow also serves as a general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers and Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. He has published widely on Latter-day Saint history and American religious history. Grow received his PhD in American history from the University of Notre Dame.
You can read more about the Brooks Conference below:
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By J StuartSeptember 30, 2024
We hope to see some of y’all in Provo!
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By J StuartSeptember 9, 2024
Third Annual Juanita Brooks Conference
Utah State University
April 25-26, 2025
The Third Annual Juanita Brooks Conference will be held on April 25-26, 2025. Juanita Brooks wrote extensively about her family and other family relationships, biographies, as well as about southern Utah, most famously about the Mountain Meadows Massacre. We welcome papers related to Juanita Brooks’ work in southern Utah and its surrounding Mormon communities. The program committee invites scholars young and old, local and global, to investigate all aspects of these themes:
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