Benjamin Brown and Dr. David L. Paulsen, Philosophy Department My research for this project was supportive of a larger project already underway by Dr. Paulsen and Ari Bruening. The project investigates claims by certain scholars concerning the teachings of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter LDS Church) relative to the nature […]
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Intervention, Mormons, and the Orozco Revolution
Douglas P. Larsen and Dr. Shawn W. Miller, History The full material of this study was written in a 26 page Honors Thesis. The results are summarized below. In the summer of 1912 several hundred Mormon colonists fled their homes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. They feared for their lives as retreating Orozquista […]
The Delaware Indians Before, During, And After The 1831 Visit of Mormon Missionaries
David M. Calabro and Dr. Richard E. Bennett, Church History and Doctrine In 1831, missionaries Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, and Frederick G. Williams visited the Delaware Indians on their reservation in Kansas and preached the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Delawares reacted positively to the missionaries’ message. However, before the missionaries could baptize […]
TEXTUAL FINGERPRINTING: UNCOVERING BOOK OF MORMON MATERIAL IN THE JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE
Donald Patrick Bradley, Ancient Scripture The Problem During the first three years of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith spent much of his time revising or retranslating the Bible. He intended to clarify obscure passages, restore lost truths, and weed out errors that had found their way into the sacred text. Although the resulting “Joseph Smith […]
Tolstoy and Mormonism
Gary L. Browning and Dr. Melvin K. Richardson, Germanic and Slavic Languages When Leo Tolstoy was a young boy, his older brother told him that the secret of life was written on a green stick, buried under an oak tree in the woods of Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate in the beautiful rolling hills […]
GREAT WITH CHILD: PREGNANCY NARRATIVES BY MORMON WOMEN
Angela Ashurst-McGee I completed an honors thesis entitled “Great with Child: Pregnancy Narratives by Mormon Women.” Richard Duerden of the English Department advised the thesis. Neal Kramer, William Wilson, and Doris Dant also gave feedback and assistance. I interviewed eight women and transcribed and edited seven interviews, which totaled more than 100 pages. As an […]
The Samara Mormons of Russia: An Accident of History
James W. Scott and Dr. Gary Browning, Germanic and Slavic Languages The discovery of Russian sectarians popularly known as Mormons has generated great interest among missionaries and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in recent years, and several informative articles have appeared on the subject.1 This article summarizes my findings from […]
“Libelous Films”: Mormon and Gentile Efforts to Suppress Anti- Mormon Films, 1911-1912 Summary
Jacob W. Olmstead and Dr. Brian Q. Cannon, History Late in 1911 the motion picture trade journal Moving Picture World announced that the film A Victim of the Mormons was slated for release in the United States during the first week in February 1912. Of Danish origin, this film rehearsed the fictitious travails of a […]
B. H. Schettler: The Personification of Mormon Sainthood and Bankrupt “Buccaneer”
Jacob Wayne Olmstead and Dr. Ignacio Garcia, Department of History Bernhard Herman Schettler strolled down the dusty streets of Salt Lake City for the first time in the autumn of 1861, after making the three and a half month journey from New York City. Having made favorable impressions on George Q. Cannon, Orson Pratt, and […]
Poetic Parallelism of the Isaiah Scroll and the Book of Mormon: Contributions to the King James Version
Mindy J. Anderson and Dr. Donald W. Parry, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The aim of this research is to show where the Book of Mormon Isaiah texts and the Isaiah Scroll complete parallelisms in the King James translation of Isaiah. The following represents a summary of my findings. Discovered in 1947, the Great Isaiah […]
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