Women of Covenant
by Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks (Contributions to the Study of Religion)
by Newell G Bringhurst
For those unfamiliar with Mormonism, here is a brief history and a look at the religion's key teachings. Farkas and Reed point out what they believe to be the myriad inconsistencies, errors, and absurdities of Mormonism. Would-be evangelists will discover a strategy that paves the way for the ultimate goal--sharing the Gospel.
In this first history of psychotherapy among the Latter-day Saints, Eric G. Swedin describes how modern psychology has affected the "healing of souls” in the LDS community. But he also shows how this community melded its theological doctrines with mainstream psychiatry when secular concepts clashed with fundamental tenets of Mormonism. The psychological professions pervasive in twentieth-century American society were viewed as dangerous by some religious communities. Healing Souls describes...
What Every Mormon (and Non-Mormon) Should Know
by Edmond C Gruss and Lane A Thuet
Mormonism and the Emotions (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon Studies)
by Mauro Properzi
Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts is an introductory Latterday Saint (LDS) theology of emotion that is both canonically based and scientifically informed. It highlights three widely accepted characteristics of emotion that emerge from scientific perspectives-namely, the necessity of cognition for its emergence, the personal responsibility attached to its manifestations, and its instrumentality in facilitating various processes of human development and experience. In...
