DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 1994

CONTENTS

LETTERS v

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS NAUVOO ROOTS OF MORMON POLYGAMY, 1841-46: George D. Smith 1 A PRELIMINARY DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT

PERSONALITY AND MOTIVATION IN U T A H HISTORIOGRAPHY Gary Topping 73

INTELLECT AND FAITH: THE CONTROVERSY OVER Clara V. Dobay 91 REVISIONIST MORMON HISTORY

THE "NEW SOCIAL HISTORY" AND THE "NEW MORMON Roger D. Launius 109 HISTORY": REFLECTIONS ON RECENT TRENDS

THE MORMON STRUGGLE WITH ASSIMILATION AND Armand L. Mauss 129 IDENTITY: TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS SINCE MIDCENTURY

THE DEVIL MAKERS: CONTEMPORARY EVANGELICAL Massimo Introvigne 153 FUNDAMENTALIST ANTT-

SPIRITUALISM AND MORMONISM: SOME THOUGHTS Michael W. Homer 171 ON THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

THE "MORAL" ATONEMENT AS A M O R M O N INTERPRETATION Lorin K. Hansen 195

THE COYOTE HUNTER Track Lamb-Kwon 229

SCRIPTURAL STUDIES GNOSTICISM REFORMED Bertrand C. Barrois 239

FICTION STRONG LIKE WATER Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner 253

POETRY

JESUS IS COMING Brent Pace x SARIAH Marni Asplund-Campbell 106 MUMMY PENDULUM David Paxman 150

MOVEMENTS GIVING OFF LIGHT Dixie Partridge 192

HOBBY HORSES Lance Larsen 228

To OF NAZARETH: PATRON SAINT Harlow Soderborg Clark 236 OF FATHERS DISPOSSESSED IRELAND Brent Pace 281 REVIEWS 273 PRISONER OF IDEALS K. C. Benedict Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87 edited by Stan Larson EASY-TO-READ: A CONSUMER'S REPORT Christian K. N. Anderson The Easy-to-Read : Based on the Work Translated by , Jr. by Lynn Matthews Anderson WOMEN'S RIGHTS Alan C. Tull Women's Rights in Old Testament Times by James R. Baker

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 283

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