Michael Reed's 2012 book Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo sets out an excellent account uncomfortable relationship between Church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints and core symbol Christianity: cross. Reed persuasively demonstrates that taboo was late development in Saint history locates much taboo's roots anti-Catholicism early to mid-twentieth century.This article presents mo...

Ten years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.1 I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but ended up being widely discussed piece and has been accessed tens of thousands times.2 The public discussion about ideas both critical appreciative. In wake article, own research thinking have also developed. When first approach...

In 2019 there existed a legal entity known as The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.1 This fact will likely strike most readers unexceptional. More interesting, however, prior to had been no such the Saints for over 150 years, last that name having disincorporated in 1862. Even more strangely, although were millions people around globe who identified themselves Saints, only member was Ru...

The distinct nature of the cold fusion regime is emphasized: electromagnetic selection rules suppress radiation, permitting excess energy transference to the lattice; the coherent nature of the wave-function is at variance with the standard separation between barrier penetration and nuclear reactivity. The discussion is restricted to tritium production, based on the dd reaction that populates t...

Drawing on observations and suggestions from scholars of Tibetan Buddhism Mormonism, this article compares the production Book Mormon with that class Buddhist scripture known as gter ma (“Treasure,” pronounced “terma”).2 In brief, both are said to have been authored by ancient religious figures, buried anticipation future discovery, discovered visionaries help supernatural beings, “translated” ...

Content warning: This article contains references to disordered eating and bodily harm.Beginning in March 1935, Orlean Kingston documented her rigorous fasts visionary experiences that revealed the proper diet for kingdom of God.1 In first entry on subject, she wrote, “We fasted every other day. I grew very weak. One night after fasting all day was such misery from hunger weakness could not sle...

This article rebuts conventional claims that AIDS in Africa is a microbial problem to be controlled through sexual abstinence, behavior modification, condoms, and drugs. The orthodox view mistakenly attributes to sexual activities the common symptoms that define an AIDS case in Africa diarrhea, high fever, weight loss and dry cough. What has really made Africans increasingly sick over the past ...

Differential fertility is frequently overlooked as a meaningful force in longitudinal public opinion change. The researchers examine the effect of fertility on abortion attitudes, a useful case study due to their strong correlation with family size and high parent-child correlation. They test the hypothesis that the comparatively high fertility of pro-life individuals has led to a more pro-life...

Evolutionary theories of religion are essential for understanding current trends in terrorist activity. We outline recent theoretical developments that focus on four cross-culturally recurrent features of religion: communal participation in costly ritual, belief in supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, separation of the sacred and the profane, and adolescence as the critical life p...

The emergence of new non-state actors in the post Cold War reality have dramatically changed security environment around the globe. Modern terrorism practiced by Al Qaeda and its associated movement (AQAM) has posed serious threat to critical information infrastructure given the trend of connecting control systems that run these infrastructures to the internet. Although AQAM have not been succe...