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English
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The Origin and Evolution of the Sunstone Species : Twenty-Five Years of Creative Adaptation
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Sunstone Magazine
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22
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115-6
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Stanford, CA
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Sunstone Foundation
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5-14
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"SINCE KIRTLAND, LATTER-DAY SAINTS HAVE expressed and explored their faith through independent forums-journals, newsletters, books, magazines, social clubs, historical groups, theaters, and schools. In the 1960s and 1970s, as the Church correlated programs and consolidated publications, independent Mormon forums proliferated. Was it because the number of Saints interested in the emerging, diverse topics reached critical mass? Or because sixties' activism prompted Saints to compensate for the downsizing of institutional Mormonism? Whatever. In ground plowed by the 1960s' triumvirate-Brigham Young University Studies, the Mormon History Association, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought-numerous other organizations and publications flowered in the 1970s: hardy perennials such as the Association for Mormon Letters and the women's Exponent 11 and ephemeral annuals such as the architectural preservation group Cornerstone and the intellectual journal Carpenter.