Mormonism

"For many people, the role of religion in politics is less about a set of prescriptions to which decisions can be confidently ascribed and more about a set of resources that individuals can choose to bring to bear on their decision-making process," writes...

Natalie Cherie Campbell is a second year MTS candidate and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She wrote this reaction piece following the January 2 passing of Thomas S. Monson, the president of the LDS church. ♦♦♦ Upon the death...

The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, died on January 2. Monson led the church for nearly 10 years, enabling a rise in the ranks of female Mormon missionaries and displaying an openness to scholars of...

Though Taylor Petrey did his doctoral work on ancient Christian debates about the resurrection, this last year he found himself teaching a course at HDS on the 200-year-old tradition of Mormonism—a newcomer, by the standards of world religions. Petrey...

HDS students took advantage of a rare opportunity on October 15 when they, along with several alums, partners, and friends, piled into two cars and headed down to Hartford, Connecticut, for the unique experience to tour a temple of the Church of Jesus...

WSRP Research Associate Taylor Petrey delivers his talk, “The Mormon Homosexual: Caring and Curing from the 1970s to the Present.”

Donald Trump's " inwardly looking nativism clashes with the international instincts of the state's predominate faith," writes Professor David Holland.

On Monday, June 23, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) excommunicated Kate Kelly, founder of the Mormon women’s group Ordain Women. In its decision, the all-male panel wrote that Kelly had "persisted in an aggressive effort to persuade...

On October 10, 2012, four scholars spoke on the relevance of different religions in this year's presidential election. The panelists were: J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy...