Item Detail
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26787
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English
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Mormons, Films, Scriptures
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2012
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45
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3
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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171-179
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It is relatively easy to set up as polar opposites Gary Roger's The Book of Mormon Movie and Richard Dutcher's States of Grace, and not only in terms of aesthetic merit. Where the one is ostensibly conservative, the other is ostensibly liberal; where the one, not unproblematically, reproduces and reinforces Mormon culture, the other, also not unproblematically, contests and ultimately parts ways with Mormon culture. But despite such clear differences in both talent and approach, Rogers and Dutcher wrestle, in many ways, with the very same problem. Here, Spencer discusses the relevance of Mormon scripture to contemporary life.