Armand L. Mauss On December 9, 1978, the first Latter-day Saint missionaries (two senior couples) assigned to Ghana from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints entered that country and baptized 89 souls, many of them already converted through their own study of LDS literature.2 By the end of …
IJMS Journal Version [PDF] 6:2013 (1-53) Wilfried Decoo Abstract: In Mormon parlance, both ‘Mormon culture’ and ‘gospel culture’ are used to define Mormon identity. Outside lies the ‘culture of the world’, which was once highly valued by Mormons, until its meaning changed. This article traces how these terms relate to …
IJMS Journal Version [PDF] 1:2008 (87-98) As part of the background to my 1997 Doctoral thesis with Professor Douglas Davies at Nottingham I conducted a nationwide survey of the musical practices and attitudes of 12 to 18 year old Latter-day Saints in the British Isles. Significant findings from that survey …
IJMS Journal Version [PDF] 2:2009 (128-141) The religious landscape of nineteenth-century Finland was highly uniform, at least on the surface. The organized and legally public practice of religion was dominated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church, with the Orthodox Church also having an officially approved role. During that century, however, this …
IJMS Journal Version [PDF] 1:2008 (154-171) Introduction Central to the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is its theology of the “Gathering”, the doctrine by which nineteenth century British and European converts immigrated to the United States in order to establish a modern-day “Zion.”[1] For modern Latter-day …
IJMS Journal Edition 2:2009 (23-41) This exploratory article on the Holy Spirit in Mormonism is in two, unequal, parts. The longer first section describes the dominant place of the Holy Spirit as a primary reference point for understanding religious experience in Mormonism as an authentic Christian movement identified in a …
IJMS 5:2012 IJMS Journal Version PDF The rise of Hitler and the Second World War had an enormous effect throughout Europe, particularly Germany. …
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MORMON STUDIES Volume 5, 2012 PUBLICATION DETAILS EDITOR David M. Morris EDITORIAL BOARD James D. Holt Adam R. Jones Kim B. Östman Ingrid Sherlock–Taselaar The International Journal of Mormon Studies is a European based internationally focused, peer–reviewed online and printed scholarly journal, which is committed to the promotion of …
IJMS Journal Version Father, Jesus and Lucifer in Pre-Mortal Council[1] How does one establishment deal with another establishment? Does it concede rank to others or assert rank over them? Much depends, of course, on the nature of the ‘establishment’ concerned, as to whether it exists at the apex of the power-base …
IJMS Journal Version PDF Oriana Fallaci, the Mormons and Me: A Personal Recollection Some of the most enduring writing concerning nineteenth-century Mormons has been written by famous authors who utilized polygamy as a backdrop in books of historical fiction. After Brigham Young moved the church to the Utah valley in 1847, …