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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Mormon Church"”.
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Memory, History, and Forgetting in the Sandra Allen Collection of Papers on Mormonism: A Feminist Rhetorical Historiography of Institutional Intervention in the Equal Rights Amendment
… and rhetorical theory to argue that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reinterpreted the Mormon past to engender identification and foster political action during the Equal Rights Amendment ratification period (1976-1981). Chapter One provides readers with an orientation to …
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The American Party in Utah Politics: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict 1904-1912
… to oppose the political control of Utah by the Mormons. The Liberal party thus formed has been adequately treated in an H. A. essay submitted to the History Department of the University of Utah.</p> <p>The second Liberal party, the American party, has received only cursory mention In a few …
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The History of the Sabbath in Mormonism
… approach to the doctrine of the Sabbath in Mormonism. As such it is concerned with the first day Sabbath which has been observed with rare exception since the founding of Mormonism. The study also investigates the interest which has existed throughout the history of the Church of Jesus …
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Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories
… family histories written by descendants of Mormon polygamists. Using methods of discourse and rhetorical analysis, these texts and various interviews are analyzed with the contention that identity is a rhetorical production and that the authors (either intentionally or unwittingly) …
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The Foundations and Early Development of Mormon Mission Theory
… question facing missiologists and historians of Mormonism: given their sustained preoccupation with converting others to Mormonism and their thriving tradition of missionary work, how do Mormons conceive of their mission? By focusing on the theoretical frame in which Mormon missionaries imagined …
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The recurring appeals of the Mormon rhetorical vision
… study investigates the recurring appeals of the Mormon rhetorical vision, appeals that help account for the growth of the Mormon Church which is now eight million; Bormann's Fantasy Theme Analysis, a communication model that explains how small groups develop imaginative ideas and concepts called …
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Welcome to the Branch
… issues of cultural differences in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or LDS church), more commonly known as the Mormon Church. Set in modern-day, downtown Richmond, Welcome to the Branch follows two very different members of the LDS church as they examine and try to …
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Fiscal and Spatial Impacts of Church-Owned Property on a Municipality -- A Case Study of Lee's Summit, Missouri
… of a large tax-exempt property, owned by the Mormon Church, on the City of Lee's Summit. It estimates the property tax revenue loss of the local municipal and the influence of the property on the City's development structure. The study proposed two extreme scenarios to offer a range of the …
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Writing the true self: case studies of ENG 101 students responding to a Peter Elbow-inspired curriculum
… University–Hawaii. Having been brought up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as LDS Church or Mormon Church), these students come from a cultural literacy context in which authorship and personal development are related. Therefore, in this research project, I examined …
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A community's dominant religion: A counter definition
… people approximately seventy-five percent were Mormon; The data was compiled using a complete participant observer research strategy. A pair of researchers, one male and one female, spent a year in the field gathering the data. While observing the daily interactions within the community, the …
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Unresolved tensions in the Mormon doctrines of God, man, and salvation during three critical periods of development
… are unresolved doctrinal tensions in several Mormon doctrines. While many Mormon scholars have assumed that the same doctrinal views have been taught since the founding of the church in 1830, the weight of historical evidence argues directly against this assumption and indirectly against the …
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Alexandria in the Shadow of the Hill Cumorah: A Comparative Historical Theology of the Early Christian and Mormon Doctrines of God
… of the early Christian (pre-Nicene) and Mormon doctrines of God. For the Christian tradition, I follow a detailed study of the apostolic period, followed by the apologetical period, and then conclude with the pre-Nicene up to around 250 C.E. For the Mormon tradition, I cover the period …
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The Silent Majority: Conservative Perception, Mobilization, and Rhetoric at the Utah State International Women's Year Conference
… became a battleground. Mobilized by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and conservative groups, 14,000 women revolted against the state coordinating committee. Chaired by Jan Tyler, Utah's IWY committee tried to plan the conference to include both liberals and …
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Pioneers in Twentieth Century Mormon Media: Oral Histories of Latter-day Saint Electronic and Public Relations Professionals
… to the development and growth of media in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a one-hour documentary film, Pioneers in Mormon Media, which gives a brief history of the development of modern mass communications and its use by the Church. This qualitative study investigates who …
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"It was by reason of being Mormons that we were kept at arms length" : Mormonism, Freemasonry, and conflicting interests on the Illinois frontier.
… lodge in Nauvoo, Illinois, in March 1842, Mormons living in the area enthusiastically joined the fraternity. Despite the eagerness with which Mormons affiliated with the society, many non-Mormon Masons in Illinois viewed the Mormons with suspicion and contempt and justified the distrust …