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| 1 |  | Young Women in Mormon homelands, 1975-2000: an oral history project | Stone, Heather Joy | Communication; Religion; Womens studies | This research is a case study about the benefits and challenges of participating in a close-knit religious society. It uses oral history and rhetorical analysis to examine the lives of fifty-five young Latter-day Saint (Mormon) women who moved to Mormon homelands from 1975 through 2000. In this stud... | 2018 |
| 2 |  | Mormons, sexual minorities, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Nielson, Elijah K. | Religion; LGBTQ studies | Individuals who identify as Mormon-adherents to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church), a distinct and peculiar form of Christianity-and who also identify as gay or lesbian face a unique challenge to their mental health as they wrestle with the integration of their faith and their ... | 2017 |
| 3 |  | Cultivating legitimacy in a religious context: a pan-historical analysis of Mormon Feminism | Kinney, Tiffany Dawn | Religious history; Womens studies; Communication; American literature; Rhetoric; Religion; Historical text analysis | Cultivating Legitimacy in a Religious Context brings to rhetoric a study of legitimacy, specifically focusing on female rhetors who pursue authority along nontraditional routes. As a case study, I consider how local histories provide texture to dominant narratives by analyzing the stories of three e... | 2017 |
| 4 |  | The new Mormon history | Marshall, Richard Stephen | Mormonism; Mormon history; Religion; LDS church | Professor Klaus J. Hansen has observed that "Mormonism in 1974 differs fundamentally from the Mormonism of 1890 even though no theoretical change in doctrine may have occurred."1 This fundamental difference is obvious to any person who has studied the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-... | 1977-05 |
| 5 |  | Religion, social capital, and health among recent immigrants to the United States | Quinn, Thomas Christian | Health; Religion; Social capital | That the social networks to which a migrant belongs can have powerful effects on his or her behavior and health is widely accepted within the field of sociology. The causal pathways through which such networks affect health, however, are not as clear. Drawing on sociological theories of religion, he... | 2015-08 |
| 6 |  | Health, medicine, and power in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah, 1869-1945 | Cater, Benjamin Michael | Medicine; Mormon; Public health; Race; Religion | This dissertation examines the social history of medicine in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It contends that race and class played disproportionate roles in the creation and evolution of Progressive Era health reforms. White middle-class residents ... | 2012-12 |
| 7 |  | Religion, spirituality and aging: a longitudinal study of mental and physical coping | Nathenson, Sophia Lyn | Aging; Cancer; Coping; Meditation; Religion | A connection to the divine, God, or nature can be a source of comfort, guidance and insight, particularly during times of hardship or illness. This study draws together sociological theories on religion, aging and health to explore the ways in which religious and spiritual practices may impact the m... | 2012-12 |
| 8 |  | Theory's limits: philosophy and the law | Booher, Troy L. | Constitution; Free will; Interpretation; Originalism; Religion; Speech | The relationship between law and philosophy is easily and often overstated. In this dissertation, I shed some light on the appropriate relationship between law and philosophy. The primary problem I identify is confusing a conceptual issue for a practical one. While theory can help clarify almost an... | 2010-08 |
| 9 |  | In the house of beauty | Rogers, Erin | Experimental writing; Fiction; Mythology; Non-fiction; Religion; Women's studies | This collection of short fiction was written to explore the limits of genre, the page, and language itself. It is an exploration and discovery of space. A peek into the in between. An examination of the unknown, the negative, the experiences that never were. It is a contradiction. A fleeting moment ... | 2010-12 |
| 10 |  | The role of religion in the formation of nationalism, two case studies: Turkish and Armenian nationalisms | Tekkoyun, Ali | Armenian nationalism; Nationalim; Religion; Turkish nationalism | Nationalism provides a rational framework for the formation of a national identity for societies by associating that identity with territory, religion, and/or language. This study takes the association of nationalism with religion into account in the Turkish and Armenian cases with the aim of provid... | 2011-05 |
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