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		<title>Women in the Academy: Sheila Taylor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are tickled to hear from Sheila Taylor, who is currently finishing a doctorate in systematic theology at Graduate Theological Union. Sheila shares her journey from studying history to studying theology and reflects on what it is like to be a female scholar in a male-dominated field. 
Name:
Sheila Taylor (Though online I usually go by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event Reminder: BYU Studies 50th Anniversary Symposium, March 10, 12-13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is the BYU Studies 50th Anniversary Symposium. The Conference takes place on the 12-13 and there are also lectures Wed. evening, the 10th.  I was originally slated to present, but will be unable to attend due to an incredible scheduling oversight on my part. See the program.
Also, for those unable to attend, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/event-reminder-byu-studies-50th-anniversary-symposium-march-10-12-13/</link>
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		<title>Our Visions, Our Voices: A Mormon Women&#8217;s Literary Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An exciting event approaches. From March 22 to 27, a group of Mormon women writers (both accomplished and budding) will be traveling to universities from California to Utah. On this literary tour, they will showcase their creative work on what it means to be Mormon women in the 21st century.
From the tour blog:
What place do &#8220;Mormon&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/our-visions-our-voices-the-mormon-womens-literary-tour/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Clark.  Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.  
So I though I&#8217;d post a summary of a few really great books I&#8217;ve read recently that I see as being useful to those studying Mormonism.
Thinking with Demons focusses on what intellectuals said about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BYU Studies 48:4 (2009)-Special Thomas L. Kane Issue</title>
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BYU Studies 48:4 (2009)
This issue, recently arrived, is a special issue on Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons, 1846-1883 and is edited by David J. Whittaker. From the preface and the BYU Studies website:
“In 1996, the [Harold B.] Lee Library [at BYU] was able to obtain a significant Kane family archive consisting of journals, scrapbooks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Prelude to American Imperialism&#8221;: Mormon Polygamy, Natural Law, and Whiteness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I put up a link earlier this week on the sideblog to an article by Nate Oman* entitled &#8220;Natural Law and the Rhetoric of Empire: Reynolds v. United States, Polygamy, and Imperialism&#8221; (available at SSRN here). Because Nate is shopping the article around to law journals and it thus might not catch the attention of historians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/prelude-to-american-imperialism-mormon-polygamy-natural-law-and-whiteness/</link>
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		<title>2010 Restoration Studies Symposium Schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taken from here. Looks like a great time.
2010 Restoration Studies Symposium


Thursday, April 8
All Thursday events will take place at the Graceland University/Independence Campus, 1401 West Truman Rd., in Independence, Missouri.
(1) 7:00 – 8:30 pm — Welcome and Wallace B. Smith Lecture, Plenary Session
&#8220;Who is a Christian? The Perspective of Ecumenical Christianity.&#8221;
Presenter: Don Compier
(2) 8:30 – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Mitch Horowitz. Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation. New York: Bantam Books, 2009.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This review, in a slightly different format, will appear in an upcoming issue of  The Journal of Mormon History.  Grateful acknowledgment to Boyd Petersen, that publication&#8217;s book review editor, for permission to publish here is hereby pronounced.
Mitch Horowitz has written an often gleefully fascinating book.  Horowitz is editor in chief of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/book-review-mitch-horowitz-occult-america-the-secret-history-of-how-mysticism-shaped-our-nation-new-york-bantam-books-2009/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The new landscape of the religion blogosphere&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editors of the SSRC (Social Science Research Council) blog The Immanent Frame have produced a report on the blogosphere and religion. It is presented with this introduction:
Blogs have given occasion to a whole new set of conversations about religion in public life. They represent a tremendous opportunity for publication, discussion, cross-fertilization, and critique of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/the-new-landscape-of-the-religion-blogosphere/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blogger: Max Mueller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re pleased to welcome a distinguished and honorable new guest blogger to the fold.  Put your hands together for Max.
Max Perry Mueller is a PhD candidate in American religious history at Harvard University, focusing on nineteenth century Mormonism and African American religious history. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S.) [...]]]></description>
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