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	Mormon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a press release from 2001, the LDS Church stated that the word "Mormon" as an adjective in such expressions as "Mormon pioneers", "Mormons" as a noun in reference to church members, and "Mormonism" as a doctrine, culture, and lifestyle were all acceptable.
		The LDS Church argues "Mormon", "Mormon fundamentalist" and "Mormon dissident" in reference to organizations or groups outside of the LDS Church (especially those that practice plural marriage) is a misunderstanding of Mormon theology, in particular the principle of continuous revelation and Priesthood authority.
		However, some feel the terms "Mormon" and "Mormonism" should be used exclusively to refer to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church), which is by far the largest Latter Day Saint denomination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mormon

	Dave's Mormon Inquiry: The Churching of America
		Mormon congregational, stake, and general authority leadership ranks are drawn overwhelmingly from the business class; the Church functions partly as a for-profit corporation; the political structures in the state maintain a rather thinly disguised religious partisanship.
		Mormon culture needs its own varieties of reform, even if they look nothing like Protestantism or secular liberalism, because without them, the self-critical function is assigned to the hierarchy â”Â an arrangement that history has shown to be rather unfruitful.
		The Mormon Church is a high-cost, high-benefit denomination, a "sect" in the non-pejorative sense used by the authors.
	mormoninquiry.typepad.com /mormon_inquiry/2004/10/the_churching_o.html

	Mormon America - The Power and the Promise
		Plainly, among Mormons and their leaders, a certain anxiety and a certain lurking concern for inauthenticity and illegitimacy--has the all-knowing God really changed His mind or was it just His leaders?--remains, even with the implicit acceptance that what really matters is not doctrine for its own sake but the forward march of the corporate church.
		Accounts of Mormons and the Mormon Church--officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--tend toward one of two extremes.
		What matters to Mormons is their "living prophet"; the Ostlings are correct to quote the late Mormon Church president and prophet Ezra Taft Benson that "a living prophet trumps dead ones." But when the institution is a church and a religion, then the rhetorical tools by which that trump is played matter a great deal.
	www.lds-mormon.com /mormonamerica.shtml

	Excerpt: Culture Clash and Accommodation
		The Mormons arrived too late to find that they "had been outwitted, and that their district was in the hands of the Liberals." The new board immediately repudiated Cummings's contract, forcing him to seek employment as principal of the new Eighteenth Ward Seminary.
		Faithful Mormons saw no conflict in having the president of their church, Brigham Young, serve also as the civil governor of the territory, or the president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, John Taylor, serve as the superintendent of common schools.
		However, for Mormons to back away from what they considered to be divine mandate would have been tantamount to denying their belief that they had been chosen to fulfill the divine will in establishing the Kingdom of God.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/culture.htm

	Mormon: What is Mormon Culture?
		Many Mormon communities have traditions of putting on plays and pageants, that though many are campy because of their Mormonness, they do have value and allow Mormons to express their culture through the arts.
		Mormonism as a culture is very much influenced by the puritan attitudes of New England, the area most early Mormons were from.
		My definition of Mormon Culture: The organization is so insecure about the ability of the belief system to attract and keep members, that it has had to canonize doctrines of fear, threats and family pressure to stay alive.
	www.exmormon.org /mormon/mormon286.htm

	Ethan R. Yorgason / Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
		Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region charts the cultural contradictions of both Mormons and non-Mormons and how they were resolved over time by a narrowing of the range of moral positions on gender (in favor of Victorian gender relations), the economy (in favor of indivi-dual economics), and the nation (identifying with national power and might).
		In the late nineteenth century the Mormon "culture region" of the American West was considered radical, identified by non-Mormons with sexual immorality, communalism, and anti-Americanism.
		Non-Mormons worried that Mormons would establish an un-American society in the West, while Mormons feared for the very existence of their church.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f03/yorgason.html

	Mormon Church : Nation's Anthropologists Evaluate LDS Culture - religious cults and sects
		WASHINGTON -- For a first taste of Mormon culture, the menu presented to the world's largest professional association of anthropologists was on the spicy side: The troubles of corroborating archaeology with Book of Mormon geography; the secret struggle of gay missionaries; and institutional historical amnesia about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
		Theologically, the Mormon Church is a cult of Christianity.
		Although most secular scholars doubt that the so-called Izapa Stela 5 stone has any relation to Book of Mormon geography or theology, many Mormon researchers and faithful believe it is scientific proof of the veracity of the Book of Mormon.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an011204-08.html

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Mormon Christ
		Though his picture adorns most Mormon homes and chapels, though he is referred often in the Book of Mormon, though every prayer and testimony is concluded "in the name of Jesus Christ," Mormons are forbidden to pray to him.
		The Mormon church correctly teaches that the Son exists from all eternity.
		In the Mormon view, she was perhaps the only woman in history lawfully permitted to engage in polyandry.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1330

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		Though to Mormons the celebration may always bring to mind the pioneers of 1847, to the society as a whole the day is one to celebrate the building of the society by "pioneers" of many eras and backgrounds.
		As is became established as a major Mormon tradition, Pioneer Day was celebrated as a birthday, an independence day, and a thanksgiving day for Mormons, as well as a foretaste of the celebration of the Saints that would usher in the millennium at the end of time.
		Salt Lake City remains the center of this observance, but the founding of a Mormon homeland is annually commemorated throughout the Mormon Culture Region and elsewhere among LDS congregations.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/p/PIONEERDAY.html

	Evangelicals and Mormons Together? - Books & Culture
		The "Hebraisms" isolated by Mormon John Tvedtnes are clearly connected to a pre-existing tradition of translation from the posited source language, in this case, a relatively literal translation of the Hebrew imbedded in the KJV in Elizabethan English.
		Mormon scholars working under the aegis of the Foundation of Ancient Research and Mormon Studies and others based at Brigham Young University have undertaken a range of serious studies that tend to concentrate on the internal evidence of the Book of Mormon and its purported Semitic origins.
		It is hence not surprising that those Mormon scholars who have seriously sought to further the discussion with evangelicals have turned anew to the person of Christ, mining the Book of Mormon for its more traditional understanding of both his majesty and his humility.
	www.christianitytoday.com /bc/2004/006/17.38.html

	Mormon Historic Sites Utah.com
		The story of the Mormon exodus from the mid-west to Salt Lake has become well-known, but most tourists are still curious about Mormon culture and about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or LDS Church), as the Christian religion is officially known.
		For all Utahns, members of the LDS church or not, Mormonism is a unique heritage which has shaped the past, and continues to impact the state's future.
		Mormonism today is a part of everyday life throughout the world, but because of the concentration of LDS church members in Utah, Mormon culture distinguishes the area.
	www.utah.com /mormon

	Militias and Mormon Culture??
		The Posse is not representative of Wisconsin culture, nor are fringe militia groups in Utah representative of "Mormons" (the common nickname for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
		Contrary to the allegations in the article, "Mormon" culture and the doctrines of the Church urge us to be good citizens and to respect law and government.
		These "fundamentalist" polygamists and militants are excommunicated Mormons who stand as enemies of the Church, not representatives of it.
	www.jefflindsay.com /militias.shtml

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		Mormon culture originally was similar in this, but for some reason (an attempt to look conventional to the world?) the hierarchy has adopted the odd policy of orthodoxy=clean-shaven.
		As long as >Mormon lit remains inaccessible like that--inaccessible because it is so >immersed in the particularities of culture, and is driven by that >inaccessibility--then it will always erect a Berlin Wall between itself and >the world.
		Nothing else is needed--no lengthy digression into the Atonement, no treatise on the cultural significant of children's role in public administration of a religious rite, no extended exposition of baptism and renewing covenants and the authority structure of the Mormon church.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/aml-list/archive/v01.n353

	Three stories - Mormon culture and young adults
		She was a heavy smoker and an alcoholic, but liked to think of herself as a "Jack Mormon." She didn't really know what the church taught but held on to the belief that "it was the only true church." In spite of her alleged beliefs, my sister and I never attended church.
		I left the Mormon faith spiritually at age 11 but didn't physically leave the church until I was 15.
		Although my involvement in Mormonism was much shorter than many of those who have posted their stories, the effects of those few years have lasted my entire life.
	www.exmormon.org /whylft91.htm?FACTNet

	By Common Consent: The "Culture" Cop-Out
		The answer is that Mormonism has a âcultureâ that exists independent of the âdoctrine.â And to the extent that you see manifestations of belief, arguments or actions that donât fit with your (correct) perception of Mormon teachings, you can rest assured that you are just seeing Mormon âcultureâ at work.
		By saying that something is "cultural" we are in effect saying that a particular perspective or decision is optional or subjective, that "the final word" hasn't been given.
		The ones that have not come from many sources including local cultures and norms that are independent of mormon society, but have been adapted in and accepted as part of the "code".
	www.bycommonconsent.com /2005/06/the_culture_cop.html

	The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon's Production Culture
		Mormon indicates that it is thieves who are after the flocks, but they pick a particularly difficult target.
		The Book of Mormon may now be compared to two different and reasonably well-known potential production cultures: the American Northeast of the nineteenth century and Mesoamerica from the times claimed by the Book of Mormon.
		One place where the subconscious production culture should be most evident is in the event structures: those places where we see a concept being employed in the text rather than being explained in the text.
	www.fairlds.org /pubs/conf/2004GarB.html

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
		Written by a non-Morman with over 30 years of in-depth research into Mormonism, this description of Mormon life is analyzed through ideas and theories drawn from anthropology, sociology and psychology, as well as from theology, providing a form of analysis which indicates what is possible in truly interdisciplinary religious studies.
		Describing the many aspects of Morman belief, ritual, family life and history, the book presents an interpretation of the origin of Mormonism, arguing that Mormonism is rooted in the bereavement experience of the first prophet, with the first prophet's personal grief leading to his creation of this new religion.
		The temple ritual for the dead is linked to the genealogical work of many Mormon families and shows how the Mormon commitment to work for salvation relates to some present Mormon beliefs in conversion, and to traditional Christian ideas of grace.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0754613305

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		The characters are Mormon and faith is one of the themes of the novel; however, it is one of several themes.
		Subject: Re: [AML] Mormon Culture: Good & Bad I guess I'm a foreigner to Mormon culture even though I was born and raised in the Church--I mean razed.
		I thought that this would be short, but, as with many of our posts, it took on a life of its own: One of my biggest beefs is that in the culture of Mormonism, the word "intellectual" is used as a term of vilification.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/aml-list/archive/v01.n844

	Mormon -- Beliefnet.com
		Among the thousands of descendants of the Mormon leader is former San Francisco quarterback Steve Young.
		The LDS Church is less of a cult than many of the religions that accuse it of being one.
		The LDS magazine's future as a unique forum for critical Mormon thought appears to be in limbo.
	www.beliefnet.com /article_index/ai_10044.html

	Former Mormon e-mail Newsgroup
		Mormons are not allowed to "defend the faith".
		The list description:"Mormons H(ave) M(y) C(hild)" is a mutual support group for non-Mormon or ex-Mormon parents whose children (of any age) are Mormon, and whose relationships with those children are suffering because of the children's Mormonism.
		Ex-Mormon (one of the lists available) is open to all religious persuasions or religious non-belief afterMormonism and it follows the guidelines in the next few paragraphs.
	www.exmormon.org /newsgrp.htm

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		The Dating Culture among LDS High School and College Students.
		Mormonism may be respectfully referred to as Mormons, LDS, Latter Day
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	ldscentury.com /Other_culture.html

	Mormon Culture Humor Part 3
		When the MTC was built in Provo, beautiful green athletic fields were planted so the missionaries would have a place to exercise.
		The guy next to him replies, "Well before you tell that joke, you should know something.
		A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a Mormon bishop were discussing when life begins.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/humor/culture3.htm

	Zenzibar Alternative Culture
		The Jews are upset about this and are negotiating with the Mormon church to get this practice stopped.
		Apparently Mormons have been doing ceremonies to baptise dead Jews into the Mormon faith.
		I heardlast week that there is a conflict between Jews and Mormons.
	www.zenzibar.com

	Mormon Culture Humor Part 2
		In the early 1840's, the head of a fundamentalist Christian religion near Nauvoo decided that all the Mormons had to leave Illinois.
		Naturally there was a big uproar from the Mormon community.
		This was the opening remark by Sister Roche, the Washington D.C. temple matron, at the last Wilmington, N.C. Stake conference.
	www.allaboutmormons.info /humor/culture2.htm

	Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
		DIALOGUE JOURNAL is an independent quarterly established to express Mormon culture and to examine the relevance of religion to secular life.
		The journal encourages a variety of viewpoints; although every effort is made to ensure accurate scholarship and responsible judgment, the views expressed are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily those of The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints or of the editors.
		It is edited by Latter-day Saints who wish to bring their faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as a whole and to foster artistic and scholarly achievement based on their cultural heritage.
	www.dialoguejournal.com

	MORMON Culture
		This is implied to mean people who are members of the Church in name only but are not willing to change to live the life of a Latter-day.
		(NOTE: this is not the same as Latter-day Saint Culture.
		Think there is no good in other churches
	www.vcaa.com /epistles/charts/culture_mormon.html

	Mormons?
		While some Mormons seem to be rejoicing that church leaders have finally had the insight to remove some of the offensive wording in the endowment ceremony, they have not faced the serious implications of the whole matter.
		Mormonism teaches that only Mormons who receive their endowments and are married for eternity can obtain the highest exaltation in the hereafter.
		The Mormon LDS chruch is antichrist and Luciferian to the core of its being.
	www.dccsa.com /greatjoy/mormons.html

	Mormon Find - An LDS - also known as Mormons - Internet directory
		This is a list for members of the L.D.S. church who have strong feelings or who are unsure about their feelings concerning birth control, large families, and stay at home moms (each family is different and individual situations vary, no judgement is passed and agency is highly respected).
		This is a list for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS or Mormon) who are generally college age, or around the ages of 18-30.
		This list was created to provide a place for discussions that begin on other LDS mailing lists to continue when they have departed from the topic guidelines of the originating list, in other words, when it is time to take the discussion "elsewhere".
	www.mormonfind.com /?cat=165

	AML-List Review: Jews and Mormons: Two Houses of Israel
		For Mormons, as with most Christians, the regathering of Israel, the return to Palestine, has significant spiritual import, and it is inextricably linked to the acknowledgment of the Messiahship of Jesus Christ.
		Mormons see the gathering of the Jews to the State of Israel primarily as a political event rather than a spiritual one, but many Latter-day Saints follow events there with particular interest.
		Johnson, the Mormon High Priest, likewise presents his faith in a way totally familiar to most LDS.
	www.aml-online.org /reviews/b/B200077.html

	Mormon-Humor Mailing List Subscription Page
		Almost all aspects of Mormon culture, activities, events and people worldwide are fair game.
		It will, however, contain a J. Golden story or two, so be prepared to take a lighthearted look at mormonism and put up with a swearword or two.
		Jokes, of course, must be about Mormonism in some way.
	www.mormonstoday.com /mormon-humor

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