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MoreheadsMusings
http://johnwmorehead.blogspot.com
Discussion of spirituality in the post-Christendom West.
- Added on: Jun 7th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
The Sacred, Celebrity and Theological Challenge
An excerpt from Gary Laderman's Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States (New York & London: The New Press, 2009), p. 81:"For many Christians, the fear that Jesus...
Mormonism, Myths, and the Old Testament
Students of religion are aware that the religions differ on their understanding of the creation, and related to it, their views on the nature of the transcendent or the divine. This is certainly the case with evangelicals and Latter-day Saints. Both ...
Laderman: Expanding Our Concept of the Sacred
I was recently looking through past articles posted at Religion Dispatches and found one I thought I'd draw attention to here. The article is by Gary Laderman, a scholar I have mentioned here previously. Laderman is Professor and Chairperson of the D...
Questions From a Cup of Coffee
When I went to Burning Man Festival a few years ago one of the more interesting facets was a display of pictures of people holding up their written responses to the question "Why do you do what you do?" I think this is a healthy question to ask ourse...
Graham St. John: Technomad and Global Raving Countercultures
While I was conducting research for my M.A. thesis on Burning Man Festival, one of the more helpful sources was the Australian scholar, Graham St. John who did research on a similar countercultural festival called ConFest. Graham has continued his re...
Joseph Smith Jr.: Possibilities Beyond the True/False Prophet Dichotomy
How should evangelicals understand Joseph Smith Jr., founding prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Typically, with their emphasis on doctrinal orthodoxy and the idea of true prophet vs. false prophet, evangelicals...
