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From Galatia to Ghana: The Racial Dynamic in Mormon History – Armand L. Mauss

January 1, 2014 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

In Search of Mormon Identity: Mormon Culture, Gospel Culture, and an American Worldwide Church – Wilfried Decoo

January 1, 2014 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

An LDS Sound World for the Twenty-First Century: A Thesis Revisited – Warrick N. Kear

October 16, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

Reactions of Lutheran Clergy to Mormon Proselytizing in Finland, 1875–1889 – Kim B. Östman

July 9, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

The Rhetoric of the Gathering and Zion: Consistency through Change 1831-1920 – David M. Morris

July 3, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

 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 …

The Holy Spirit in Mormonism – Douglas J. Davies

May 27, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

Patriotism and Resistance, Brotherhood and Bombs: The Experience of the German Saints and World War II – Steve Carter

May 23, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

IJMS 5:2012                                                        IJMS Journal Version PDF   The rise of Hitler and the Second World War had an enormous effect throughout Europe, particularly Germany. …

March 17, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

Father, Jesus and Lucifer in Pre-Mortal Council – Douglas J. Davies

February 27, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

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 …

Oriana Fallaci, the Mormons and Me: A Personal Recollection – Michael W. Homer

February 27, 2013 | Filed under: Articles

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, …

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