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Gold Plates Seminar 2012 Announcement
1 The Annual Summer Seminar on Mormon Culture “THE GOLD PLATES AS CULTURAL ARTIFACT - II” Brigham Young University June 18 – July 27, 2012 In the summer of 2012, the Neal A Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University will sponsor a second summer seminar for graduate students and junior faculty on “The Gold Plates as Cultural Artifact.” The seminar will be held on the BYU campus in Provo, Utah, from June 18 to July 27. Admitted participants will receive a stipend of $3000 with an accommodatio
Category:(not categorized)Reads:309Uploaded:11 / 06 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionNearly Final Program for the Summer Symposium on the Cultural History of the Gold Plates, August 15, 2011
The Mormon Scholars Foundation Annual Summer Symposium on Mormon Culture Purpose of the Mormon Scholars Foundation The Mormon Scholars Foundation seeks to foster the rising generation of LDS scholars, and all young scholars working in Mormon Studies. The Foundation sponsors an annual summer seminar, conferences, and lectureships, where graduate students and young faculty join with senior LDS scholars in addressing the intellectual and spiritual problems arising from their work. We seek to form
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:149Uploaded:08 / 18 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionThe Inspired Fictionalization of the 1835 United Firm Revelations
Joseph Smith took revelations about modern people and institutions and "fictionalized" them to make them look like ancient records of the city of Enoch.
Category:HistoryReads:263Uploaded:06 / 11 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionReview of "Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America"
I review Ann Braude's book, "Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America," and conclude that it is an extremely important contribution to the study of American religion. The book's most important contributions may be its foregrounding of a non-evangelical religious tradition, its finding that religion has significantly affected American politics, and its suggestion that social reform must arise from within a cultural tradition and be articulated in the language and categories inherent in that tradition.
Category:HistoryReads:477Uploaded:03 / 27 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionThe Original Length of the Scroll of Hor
Statistics, Geometry, Egyptology, Papyrus, Mormonism, Joseph Smith Papyri, Book of Abraham, Applied Mathematics, Missing Papyrus Theory
Category:HistoryReads:443Uploaded:02 / 23 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionThe Katumin Notebooks, The Joseph Smith Papyri, And the Egyptian Alphabet
A short analysis of the 1835 Kirtland notebooks relating to Katumin, and their relationship to the Joseph Smith Papyri and Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet.
Category:HistoryReads:365Uploaded:02 / 22 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionSmith, Christopher - Why Gay Marriage is an Issue of Rights, Not of Morality
Editorial I wrote several years ago on gay marriage and religious freedom in America.
Category:Op-EdReads:253Uploaded:02 / 16 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionExplaining Genocide: How Ordinary People Become Mass-Murderers
Contrary to what one might think, most perpetrators of genocide are not crazy or predisposed to violence. To the contrary, they are quite ordinary. What, then, drives them to attempt the extermination of entire social categories of their fellow human beings?
Category:HistoryReads:1,888Uploaded:12 / 13 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionSystemic Causes of Violent Intra-State Conflict
What political, economic, and demographic factors contribute to the outbreak of civil war? What can states do to ensure stability and avert such conflicts? This paper examines the empirical research that has been done on this subject, and offers several policy proposals. I also evaluate US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and find that it was probably misguided, because it has left those states very fragile and civil war-prone.
Category:HistoryReads:979Uploaded:10 / 20 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionThe Urantia Book as a Test Case for Statistical Authorship Attribution in Genre-Distinctive Texts
Christopher Smith May 4, 2010 REL 441 HC, American Scriptures Dr. Richard Bushman The Urantia Book as a Test Case for Statistical Authorship Attribution in GenreDistinctive Texts Introduction A recent statistical study of the Book of Mormon by Matthew Jockers, Daniela Witten, and Craig Criddle (hereafter Jockers, et. al.) attempted to determine who authored that book by measuring a set of word frequencies for each chapter and comparing them to word frequencies in texts known to have been penned
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