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| REVIEW ESSAY |
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| An Exhausted Memoir Of Reading Leaving the Saints |
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| Leaving The Saints: How I Lost The Mormons And Found My Faith |
| by Martha Beck |
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| Reviewed by Tania Rands Lyon |
| [Click here for the review] |
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| This is a preview copy of the review. Please check the final version before citing it. |
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| Selected newspaper articles about Nibley's life and passing: |
LDS historian Nibley
dies at 94
By Peggy Fletcher Stack
and Mark Eddington
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Not many Mormon scholars could get away with lambasting the faithful for their excessive materialism, their fondness for the military and hunting, or their kitschy church art and still remain a favorite son. Fewer still could be a mentor to church defenders and LDS social critics at the same time . . .
[See full article]
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A Mormon Daughter's
Book Stirs a Storm
By EDWARD WYATT
New York Times
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The daughter of one of Mormonism's most prominent religious scholars has accused her father of sexually abusing her as a child in a forthcoming memoir that is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the practices and beliefs of the much-scrutinized but protectively private Mormon religious community. . . . . .
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| Ballad of Hugh Nibley, composed & performed by Michael Hicks, August 10, 2002 [Play the ballad] |
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'Brother Brigham's Revenge': Hugh Nibley on a Spit
Abstract- Come celebrate and commiserate, laugh and sigh, dine and duck, as friends, colleagues, and family members of Hugh Nibley have fun “zinging” him with revealing stories, sensational exaggerations, irreverent songs, and affectionate memories. It’s about time this intractable, cantankerous, perspicacious, and erudite 92-year-old “gets as good as he has given.” Who knows? Maybe Hugh will even give a little more of it back this very evening. One thing’s for sure—this won’t be anything like your average testimony meeting!
The 2002 Sunstone Salt Lake symposium session held August 10th, was recorded and made available on VHS tape. price $30
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