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Becoming American: Mormonism and the Mainstream Christ of Latter-day Saints “Mormons,” as followers of the faith were referred to by outsiders since their religion’s inception in the 1820s, have always been known as the strange, cultish step- cousin of Protestant Christianity In the 1960s however, something palpably changed in how outsiders perceived Mormonism and the Mormon Church
Those Amazing Mormons: The Medias Construction of Latter . . . - Dialogue Mormon image peak in the 1950s During that decade, Mormons appeared as ideal citizens But dur-ing the 1960s, Mormon attitudes toward race brought greater negativ-ity 10 Lythgoe and Stephen Stathis identify a quick reversal during the 1970s 11 Journalists generally had been painting a positive picture of Mormons through attention to family
CHANGE AND GROWTH: THE MORMON CHURCH THE 1960s - Sunstone THE MORMON CHURCH alf to the LDS Church Administration Building Protest demonstrations and marches were common pressure devices used in the 1960s to urge social change; but this was the first to pressure the LDS church Organized by black Utahns and liberal whites, many of them students and faculty from the University of Utah, it directly chal
Framing a Collage | The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years . . . On the surface, it seemed in the 2008 campaign season that public opinion numbers had not changed all that much since the late 1960s Gallup found in 1967, for example, that 75% of voters would not hesitate to vote for a Mormon for president, all other qualifications being equal
Document - JSTOR "There was a sense that to rehabilitate the Mormon image, so pocked by the anti- BYU demonstrations, public attention needed to be refocused on core Mormon tenets" such as "the centrality of the family" (74)
Bias Against Latter Day Saints | Public Square Magazine By the mid-19th century, the “Mormon Question” led to sensational coverage in newspapers like The New York Times and The Salt Lake Tribune Latter-day Saints were depicted as strange, foreign, and potentially dangerous
“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s . . . - Dialogue Journal In each of the past several decades, other issues have also put space between Mormons and Americans 1960s and 1970s journalists wondered at how Mormons could anachronistically continue to with hold the priesthood from black males
Church Periodicals Publishing newspapers allowed the Saints to represent their own views, combat false rumors, communicate with each other across distance, and share the gospel Many of Joseph Smith’s revelations and inspired translations were published for the first time in Church newspapers
Sources of strain in Mormon history reconsidered This study reviews the impact of the youth and civil rights movements of the 1960s on Mormonism According to the author, the 1960s raised fundamental questions about human purpose and values in the nation and in the Mormon Church