Item Detail
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3760
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21
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4
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English
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The Paradox of Mormon Folklore
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BYU Studies
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Autumn 1976
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17
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40-58
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"In the 130 years since the word "folklore" was coined, folklorists have been trying unsuccessfully to decide what the word means. I shall not solve the problem here. Yet if we are to do business with each other, we must come to some common understanding of terms. Briefly, I consider folklore to be the unofficial part of our culture. When a Sunday School teacher reads to his class from an approved lesson manual, he is giving them what the Correlation Committee at least would call official religion; but when he illustrates the lesson with an account of the Three Nephites which he learned from his mother, he is giving them unofficial religion. Folklore, then, is that part of our culture that is passed through time and space by the process of oral transmission (by hearing and repeating) rather than by institutionalized means of learning or by the mass media." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Bibliography of Studies in Mormon Folklore
Being Different : Stories of Utah Minorities
Between Pulpit and Pew : The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Eliza R. Snow and the Prophet's Gold Watch : Time Keeper as Relic
Fate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith : Transmutations of an American Myth
Folklore in Utah
Folklore of Utah's Little Scandinavia
Mormon Folklore : A Cut from the Marrow of Everyday Experience
Mormons in the Piazza : History of the Latter-Day Saints in Italy
'Play it Again Sam' : The Remarkable 'Prophecy' of Samuel Lutz, Alias Christophilus Gratianus, Reconsidered
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The Curse of Cain and Other Stories : Blacks in Mormon Folklore
The Great and Dreadful Day : Mormon Folklore of the Apocalypse
The J. Golden Kimball Stories
The Legend of Jessie Evans Smith
The Study of Mormon Folklore
The Study of Mormon Folklore : An Uncertain Mirror for Truth
The "Wild West" of Missionary Work : Reopening the Italian Mission, 1965-71
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
What's true in Mormon folklore? : The Contribution of Folklore to Mormon Studies