Dimensions of faith
Subtitle: a Mormon studies reader
By: Stephen C. Taysom, editor
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Subjects: Doctrines; Mormon Church; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biography. The private versus public David O. McKay: profile of a complex personality / Newell G. Bringhurst; title: Sex and prophetic power: a comparison of John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida community, with Joseph Smith Jr., the Mormon prophet / Lawrence Foster; title: Theory. Building community: the fundamentalist Mormon concept of space / Martha Bradley; title: Mormon studies in a European setting / Douglas J. Davies; title: Experience. Wilford Woodruff's vision of the signers of the Declaration of Independence / Brian H. Stuy; title: "Congenial to almost every shade of radicalism": the Delaware Valley and the success of early Mormonism / Stephen Fleming; title: A Mormon Bigfoot: David Patten's Cain and the conception of evil in LDS folklore / Matthew Bowman; title: The forms of Mormon ritual healing to 1847 / Jonathan A. Stapley and Kristine Wright; title: Memory. A uniform and common recollection: Joseph Smith's legacy, polygamy, and public memory, 1852-2002 / Stephen Taysom; title: Replacing memory: Latter-day Saint use of historical monuments and narrative in the early twentieth century / Kathleen Flake; title: Media/literature. The translator and the ghostwriter: Joseph Smith and W.W. Phelps / Samuel Brown; title: "Scandalous film": the campaign to suppress anti-Mormon motion pictures, 1911-12 / Brian Q. Cannon and Jacob W. Olmstead; title: Buckeye's laments: two early insider exposes of Mormon polygamy and their authorship / Gary James Bergera; title: God's chosen people: Mormon representations of Judaism and the Jewish other in holocaust literature / Reinhold R. Hill; title: Preaching the gospel of church and sex: Mormon women's fiction in the Young Woman's Journal / Rebecca de Schweinitz; title: Edward Tullidge and the women of Mormondom / Claudia Bushman.