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English
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Dimensions of Faith : A Mormon Studies Reader
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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446
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In the brief time between when the alarm clock rings and the start of the day, we usually cherish those few extra moments of warmth in the sheets. However, soon enough we're happy to be up and about, exploring the world around us. Similarly with religious studies, we may cling to the comforts of the past--what we find familiar in our faith--but then curiosity and conscience pull us to new revelations and sources of knowledge.
In these seventeen articles on things Mormon--prominent people, religious experience, memory, media, literature, and investigative theory--there is an obvious respect for the past and simultaneous desire to get to the bottom of things, to test the boundaries of knowledge. For instance, Jonathan Stapley and Kristine Wright look at the history of ritual healing within Mormonism, including the use of magic handkerchiefs and blessings performed by women. Matthew Bowman's essay on "A Mormon Bigfoot" looks at the story retold in Sunday school and elsewhere about an early Church apostle who saw the biblical Cain. Brian Stuy examines Church President Wilford Woodruff's account of the American founding fathers reaching from beyond the grave--a summons the prophet responded favorably to--requesting temple baptisms on their behalf. Unknown to Woodruff, this ordinance had been performed the year before. And Kathleen Flake looks at how the First Vision and other founding narratives were not emphasized in the Church until the twentieth century.
Other contributors include Gary James Bergera, Martha Bradley, Newell Bringhurst, Samuel Brown, Claudia Bushman, Brian Cannon, Douglas Davies, Rebecca de Schweinitz, Lawrence Foster, Reinhold Hill, and Jacob Olmstead.
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Curses and Marks : Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith's Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
Joseph F. Smith: Reflections on the Man and His Times
Mormon Studies : A Bibliographic Essay
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland Tribal India and Midwestern America, 1964–2000
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives