Latter Day Saints

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  4/25/2022
  

  "Under the Banner" Improves, but Doesn't Sanitize, Book's Reductive History of Mormonism

  by Benjamin E. Park

  The new series raises questions about America's homegrown faith, and shakes off some of the source book's post-9/11 concerns with extremism and religious violence to show the complexity among different tendencies and branches of the faith. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/13/2021
  

  Has BYU Canceled a Leading Historian of Mormonism?

  The Neal A. Maxwell Institute appears to be disavowing its previous connections to historian Benjamin Park. Is it because of his objections to some LDS leaders' positions on LGBTQ issues and masking and vaccination in response to COVID? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/24/2021
  

  After Encouraging Conservatism for Decades, LDS Leaders Struggle to Get Mormons Vaccinated

  by Benjamin E. Park

  "This matrix through which this conservative, religious coalition views the world enables them to summarily and efficiently dismiss arguments that don’t match their beliefs."

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  12/9/2020
  

  How Spencer McBride Does History

  History Phd Spencer McBride describes his work on the Joseph Smith Papers project, which poses unexpected challenges to learn about the world of the LDS founder. 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  5/9/2020
  

  Mormon Women are Finding — and Using — Their Voices. Are Men in the Church Listening?

  by Jana Riess

  A new collection of essays should spark consideration of long struggles by Mormon women to claim and exercise influence in the faith. The author fears that it won't. 

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• 5/10/2020
  

  COVID-19 and the White Horse Prophecy: The Theology of Ammon Bundy

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  In a country with segments of people who deny science, act on revelation, see regular events as either conspiratorial or supernatural, COVID-19 offers a platform for misinformation and agitation.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/23/2020
  

  How Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American Democracy

  by Casey Cep

  In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith established a theocracy, ran for President, and tested the limits of religious freedom.