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Journal of Mormon History
“A Hope Fulfilled: A Brief History of the Mormon Esperanto Society” by Rachel Meibos Helps (Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 50, Iss. 4)
Helps examines the 1980s missionary projects of the Mormon Esperanto Society (“Por Esperanto Mormonaro” or PEM) that aimed to reach behind the Iron Curtain and shows how an ideological confluence of Mormonism and Esperantism drove PEM members’ commitment to bring them together in an Esperanto translation of selections of the Book of Mormon
Mormon Studies Review
“Technologies of the Selfie: Mormon Influencers and the Performance of Gender Online” by Kate Davis (Vol. 12)
This essay uses Mormon women who act as social influencers to demonstrate how new and developing online spaces expand the possibilities for religious expression, power, and dialogue while also constricting the boundaries for what it means to be a publicly legible Mormon woman.
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
“Brigham Young as Pastor: Compassion and Mercy During the Utah War, 1857–1858” by William P. MacKinnon
As a very prevalent figure in Mormon history, much has been written about Brigham Young and also about his involvement in the origins, prosecution, and impact of the Utah War of 1857–1858. The purpose of this essay is to share four little-known vignettes about Brigham Young’s leadership behavior during the tensest moments of the Utah War and the Steptoe Expedition immediately preceding that conflict. They reveal the pastoral side of his character—one far different from what students of the war usually discuss, preoccupied as they often are with military matters of tactics, strategy, and accountability for atrocities such as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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