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Religious Studies
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Mormonism in the Public Mind

On April 1st and 2nd, 2009 Utah Valley University's Religious Studies Program hosted a conference entitled "Mormonism in the Public Mind." Use this flash multi-video player to watch the entire conference.  Use a mouse or pointing device to select one of the sessions in the thumbnails at the bottom of the frame to the right.  When you're finished watching a session you can click on other sessions in the same manner.  Once the video is playing you can pause it and resume using the controls that appear as you hover over the video.  Click Close to stop the play altogether. These videos are also available at the Utah Valley University Library for checkout through inter-library loan.

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Day 1

  1. Mormonisms
    1. "Postcards from the Edges: The Challenges of Mormon Diversity" -  Dan Wotherspoon
    2. "Uneasy Emergence: Mormonism and Media Gate-Keepers" - Daniel Stout
    3. "Far From Zion: Meeting Mormonism on the Religious Beat" - Michael Paulson
  2. Brownbag Lunch Panel: "The Mormon Beat"
    1. Michael Paulson, Lynn Arave, Peggy Fletcher Stack, Jennifer Dobner
  3. New Media and Pop Culture
    1. "Book of Mormon Stories that Steph Meyer Tells To Me" - Jana Riess
    2. "Why Satire is Better Than a Sermon: A Sermon" - Stephen Carter
    3. "Arrested Development"  Independent Mormon Publications Coming of Age in the Age of Blogs" - Kristine Haglund
  4. Symbols and Boundary Maintenance
    1. "You Say 'Mormon' I say 'No Way': Defining Boundaries Between FLDS and LDS in the Media and Public Discourse" - Joel Cambell
    2. "The Sacred Secret Open to All: Ye Are Gods" - Charles Randall Paul
    3. "Was Jesus Scaninavian? Sacred Archetypes at Temple Square" - David W. Scott
  5. Eighth Annual Eugene England Lecture, "The Prehistory of the Soul" - Terryl L. Givens

Day 2

  1. Political Discourse and the Latter-day Saints
    1. "Did Romney's Religion Cost Him the Presidency? - Kirk Jowers
    2. "The Politics of Morality: The Church's Involvement in Proposition 8" - Morris Thurston
    3. "The Morality of Politics: The Challenges of Mormon Tribalism" - Boyd Petersen
  2. Public Relations for the 21st Century
    1. "Perils and Prospects: Communicating LDS Messages" - Val Edwards
    2. "Public Affairs for the 21st Century" - Richard Bushman
  3. LDS Public Relations: Strategies and Applications
    1. "How Americans View Mormonism" - Gary Lawrence
    2. "Public Affairs in Harlem: A Case Study" - Claudia Bushman
  4. Brownbag Lunch Panel
    1. Val Edwards, Claudia Bushman,Gary Lawrence,Richard Bushman
  5. The Mormons in American Religious Thought
    1. "Antebellum Antagonisms: Making Sense of the Early Mormons" - Grant Underwood
    2. "How to Spot a Heretic" - Terryl Givens
    3. "An Unusual Excitement: Latter-day Saints in American Christianity" - Brian D. Birch
  6. Panel Discussion
    1. Grant Underwood, Terryl Givens, Brian D. Birch









 




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