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	<title>Peculiar People</title>
	
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	<description>Mormonism through the World and the World through Mormonism</description>
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		<title>On the Cleveland Kidnapping and Anti-Polygamy Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Morrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This semester I taught early American religious history. We start with European settlement and end with the Civil War. A whole lot happens during this span of time. A whole lot changes—but maybe not as much as it first appears. During the semester, we looked at how conceptions of gender evolved over time. We began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons and the Politics of Mother’s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/05/mormons-and-the-politics-of-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 03:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Petrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day is a big deal in Mormonism. By some measures, Mother&#8217;s Day has the most elaborate rituals of any holiday celebrated in the LDS Church. Like Christmas and Easter, Mother&#8217;s Day is typically filled with special musical numbers and talks dedicated to the topic of the day. In addition to this, adult women receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon Affect as Seen in Tap Dancing Missionaries and Laughing Robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belanger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Turn it Off,” one of The Book of Mormon Musical’s most catchy and popular songs, provides a clear example of recent representations of Mormons in popular culture. The musical focuses on the story of two nineteen-year-old Mormon missionaries who travel to Uganda to proselytize and who quickly discover a world that is more complex than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on “Sexual Purity”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Hurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Elizabeth Smart shared memories of her abduction that sent a powerful message about the way we should teach youth about sex. She said that after she had been raped, she had little motivation to escape her captor: “[it was easy] to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On “Bracketing”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joespencer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conversion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll begin this post in italics, mostly so that&#8212;since this is my first post here at Peculiar People&#8212;I can introduce myself, at least briefly. My name is Joe Spencer. I’m a PhD student in philosophy at the University of New Mexico, where I work on contemporary French philosophy (Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Alain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Your Mormon Where Your Mouth Is: Gender, Sexuality, and The Second Great Commandment</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/05/put-your-mormon-where-your-mouth-is-gender-sexuality-and-the-second-great-commandment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Inouye</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Modern Mormonism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/?p=1296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During Conference in October 2007, at the end of General Relief Society President Julie Beck’s now-famous talk, “Mothers Who Know,” I made a derisive sound from my perch on the living room couch. Once again, began a commentator’s voice inside my head, a talk for Mormon women that focuses largely on domestic roles: “nurturing,” “homemaking,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time of War, a Time of Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/a-time-of-war-a-time-of-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/a-time-of-war-a-time-of-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mormonism, politics, Romney]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/?p=1280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I was in Washington, DC, attending the third decennial symposium (entitled “A Time of War, a Time of Peace”) of the LDS National Security Professionals Society.  This is a small but serious group of Latter-day Saints who work in various sectors of the sprawling U.S. national security apparatus; participants included people from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Matt and Me (But Mostly Me)”*: A Conversation about _The Book of Mormon_ on Broadway</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/matt-and-me-but-mostly-me-a-conversation-about-_the-book-of-mormon_-on-broadway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/matt-and-me-but-mostly-me-a-conversation-about-_the-book-of-mormon_-on-broadway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cristine Hutchison-Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book of Mormon; Broadway; musical; Trey Parker; Matt Stone; South Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Book of Mormon, the musical comedy co-written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, went into previews on Broadway the week I turned in my dissertation on images of the Latter-day Saints in American culture from 1890 to the present. Sadly, this meant that while I quoted much of Parker and Stone’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mormon Studies Possible at a Mormon University?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/is-mormon-studies-possible-at-a-mormon-university/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/is-mormon-studies-possible-at-a-mormon-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Livingston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mormonism, politics, Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Should we begin with a prayer?&#8221; One of the most common, simple, and straightforward questions for anyone who knows anything about Latter-day Saints. I mean, really, what LDS gathering doesn’t begin with a prayer? Still, this time it was different . . . very different. This time it was anything but mundane and insignificant. For one of the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The More Things Change: A Review of The Mormon People</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/the-more-things-change-a-review-of-the-mormon-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/04/the-more-things-change-a-review-of-the-mormon-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Hurst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mormonism, politics, Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing Peculiar People&#8217;s recent theme of ridiculously late book reviews, I offer the following. If Matt can review Lev Grossman&#8217;s four-year-old book, I can review Matt&#8217;s one-year-old book, right? When young Latter-day Saints learn their history, I think the most common challenge to their faith is not any specific controversy, like polygamy or the Mountain [...]]]></description>
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