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...Now she has unwittingly become the figurehead of an internet fight about Mormonism and so-called “trad wives”. This Rolling Stone profile does a good job of explaining the drama....
...For the Laffertys — an influential Latter-day Saint (LDS) clan, referred to as Utah’s very own Kennedys — Brenda’s Mormonism is deemed a little too lax and modern, her personality too meddling....
Cronyism; Mormonism; prostitution; alienation; and much more.
...Stakhanovite workers toiling together to harvest and produce, each with their defined role, has served as an idealised model for capitalism, the Protestant work ethic, communism, banking, freemasonry, Mormonism...
...No one who sought converts to Mormonism in 1960s France is unacquainted with thankless work. The most prominent latter-day saint in the US remains a glutton for it....
...I read it because I am intrigued by Mormonism, but I wasn’t expecting the high drama, the opera....
...Fear of his Mormonism prompted an intense but unsuccessful three-year campaign by Protestant ministers to block his 1902 election to the senate....
...Like many religions, the origins of Mormonism are mired in violence....
...Kennedy explicitly addressed his Catholicism in 1960 and Mitt Romney did so less successfully with his Mormonism in 2012....
...Recall that Bloom once, or more than once, said that Mormonism is in a sense the truly American religion....
...I’m not a Mormon but I admire Mormonism as a religion. They get things done, they dress nicely and they don’t seem preachy....
...It was here that Joseph Smith Jr, founder and prophet of Mormonism, arrived in 1839 to create a place for the gathering of “the saints”....
...His frequent fundraising trips to Utah, the home of Mormonism, seldom if ever include public events....
...The reason, one assumes, is that highlighting his Mormonism is not part of Mr Romney’s election strategy....
...His Mormonism is not likely to be a problem. Each of these points, particularly Mr Romney’s claim to executive competence, will be emphasised in Tampa....
...But I don’t think Romney’s Mormonism can be the complete explanation for his fantastically well-preserved appearance....
...Though the state is solidly Republican, part of the special zeal or Mr Romney here is due to the fact that he shares a religion – Mormonism – with as many as 70 per cent of the state’s residents....
...Mormonism is America’s homegrown religion, one that began, according to the founding myth, with an angel visiting an illiterate farmhand, Joseph Smith, in the early 19th century in New York state....
...Mr Atkins caused some controversy recently when he wrote in an email exchange with a local reporter: “Romney’s Mormonism will be more a cause of concern than Gingrich’s infidelity.”...
...It was only the growth of Mormonism from the 1970s that made it a competitor to, and target of, Christian evangelicals....
...This would be a far bigger setback than Tuesday’s losses in the deep south, where evangelicals – and thus suspicion of Mormonism – are more concentrated than anywhere else in the country....
...Mormonism may be America’s home-grown religion but it still cannot shrug off its somewhat weird image in the land of its birth....
...He might also be helped by local evangelicals’ unease about Mr Romney’s religion, Mormonism, and by the large Pennsylvanian population in the state as older people migrate south for the winter....
...Mr Romney’s religion is also an issue for many evangelical Christian voters, who view Mormonism with deep suspicion. One Dallas pastor even called it a “cult”....
...Mr Perry later said he did not share the view that Mormonism was a “cult”....
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