BYU Studies - 46:3

Articles

Joseph Smith and the United Firm: The Growth and Decline of the Church's First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and Missouri, 1832–1834

Max H Parkin

Page 4

A Survey of Dating and Marriage at BYU

Bruce A. Chadwick, Brent L. Top, Richard J. McClendon, Lauren Smith, and Mindy Judd

Page 67

Documents

The Reverend Dr. Peter Christian Kierkegaard's "About and Against Mormonism" (1855)

Julie K. Allen and David L. Paulsen

Page 100

Essays

“O Lord, My God”

Sheldon Lawrence

Page 91

Old Folsom Prison—East Gate

James M. Thorne

Page 95

Poetry

After Sorrow

MaryJan G. Munger

Page 94

Reviews

American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

Neal W. Kramer

Page 157

Define Universe and Give Two Examples: A Comparison of Scientific and Christian Belief

Noel L. Owen

Page 160

“God Has Made Us a Kingdom”: James Strang and the Midwest Mormons

Roger Terry

Page 164

The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle

Todd M. Kerstetter

Page 169

Religion and Film: An Introduction

Kent R. Bean

Page 173

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Mark L. Grover

Page 177

Prayer: A History

Patrick Q. Mason

Page 181

The American Discovery of Europe

John L. Sorenson

Page 185

Book Notices

The Family in the New Millennium: World Voices Supporting the "Natural" Clan (3 vols.)

Doris R. Dant

Page 187

A Twenty-Something’s Guide to Spirituality: Questions You Hesitate to Ask, Answers You Rarely Hear

Carl Cranney

Page 187

Critical Issues in American Religious History: A Reader

Steven C. Harper

Page 188

Nineteenth-Century Saints at War

J. Michael Hunter

Page 189

Nauvoo: Mormon City on the Mississippi River

John M. Murphy

Page 190

Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant

Jennifer Hurlbut

Page 191

The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of the Teachings of Jesus and How They Have Been Corrupted

Saul A. Speirs

Page 191

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