Ex-Mormon online community (mainstream support)

Timeline

1. 2000s+
   Ex-Mormon online community grows

Evidence matrix

Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.

Sources

• Various press coverage search ↗
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts are Unethical and Harmful — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7349462 open ↗
• The History of the Name of the Savior's Church — https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-history-of-the-name-of-the-saviors-church-a-collaborative-and-revelatory-process/ open ↗
• Why the 'Mormon' church changed its name. (It's about revelation, not rebranding.) — https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/us/mormon-lds-name-change-revelation/index.html open ↗
• Mormon conversions surge in Latin America — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5378318 open ↗
• "The Fulness of the Priesthood": The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice — Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1983) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F45225125 open ↗
• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JOSEPH SMITH’S "FIRST VISION" IN MORMON THOUGHT — Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1966) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F45223817 open ↗
• Smith, Joseph: Legal Trials of Joseph Smith — http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4208 open ↗
• The Walker War Reconsidered — https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3460&context=etd open ↗
• Review of 'The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History — https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/231175 open ↗
• The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (review) — The American Indian Quarterly (2008) — https://doi.org/10.1353%2Faiq.2008.0010 open ↗
• Fundamentalists — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/%22Fundamentalists%22 open ↗
• Temporal and Spiritual Self-Reliance: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Development in the South Pacific — Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (2019) — https://doi.org/10.11157%2Fsites-id429 open ↗
• Mormon Political Clout — https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/mormon-political-clout open ↗
• Utah's Gambling Referendum Sparks Emotional Debate in Mormon 'Zion — https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/08/19/utahs-gambling-referendum-sparks-emotional-debate-in-mormon-zion/739ae2ad-acf5-4436-a89e-40b714d1bae8/ open ↗
• As Partners, Mormons and Scouts Turn Boys Into Men — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/us/mormons-and-scouts-act-as-partners-in-molding-boys.html open ↗
• Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/09/mormon-church-breaks-all-ties-with-boy-scouts-ending-100-year-relationship/ open ↗
• The Secular Transition: The Worldwide Growth of Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-day Adventists — https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1024.4345&rep=rep1&type=pdf open ↗
• 10.1.1.1024.4345 — https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1024.4345 open ↗
• Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F45228258 open ↗
• The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foxfordhb%2F9780199778362.001.0001 open ↗
• God: An explantation of Mormon beliefs about God — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/beliefs/god_1.shtml#h3 open ↗
• What do Mormons believe? — https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/mormon-beliefs-explained-cec/index.html open ↗
• Salvation and Atonement — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/beliefs/salvation_1.shtml open ↗
• What Do Mormons Believe? — https://abcnews.go.com/US/mormons-/story?id=17057679 open ↗
• Mormonism — Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199340378.013.75 open ↗
• Vatican Will Not Accept Mormon Baptisms — https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-20-mn-24451-story.html open ↗
• This is not Romney's Kennedy moment — https://www.salon.com/2007/12/06/romney_ohehir/ open ↗
• Mormonism's Troubled Legacy — https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/21/lives-of-the-saints open ↗
• "A Continuation of the Seeds": Joseph Smith and Spirit Birth — Journal of Mormon History (2012) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F23292634 open ↗
• Born in the Covenant — http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/5557 open ↗
• Sealing: Temple Sealings — http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4177 open ↗
• Adoption of Children — http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/5451 open ↗
• Baptism for the Dead — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/ritesrituals/baptismdead.shtml open ↗
• The Fall — Wrestling the Angel (2014) — https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facprof%3Aoso%2F9780199794928.003.0018 open ↗
• 10.2307/45227309 — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F45227309 open ↗
• The Reality of the Restoration and the Restoration Ideal in the Mormon Tradition — https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/76agz7nq9780252060298.html open ↗
• Proclamations of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Proclamations_of_the_First_Presidency_and_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles open ↗
• Psychotherapy and the Mormon Faith — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-013-9677-2 open ↗
• Psychotherapy and the Mormon Faith — Journal of Religion and Health (2013) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10943-013-9677-2 open ↗
• Mormon: Leadership — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/organisation/org.shtml open ↗
• Notes on Apostolic Succession — Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1987) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F45216003 open ↗
• Gerontocracy and the Future of Mormonism — Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought (2016) — https://doi.org/10.5406%2Fdialjmormthou.49.3.0089 open ↗
• For Mormons, Succession Drama is Against their Religion — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/for-mormons-succession-monson.html open ↗
• Standard Works — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Standard_Works open ↗
• Joseph Smith, Adam Clarke, and the Making of a Bible Revision — Journal of Mormon History (2020) — https://doi.org/10.5406%2Fjmormhist.46.3.0001 open ↗
• Joseph Smith, Adam Clarke, and the Making of a Bible Revision — Journal of Mormon History (2020) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.46.3.0001 open ↗
• Mormon: Baptism — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/ritesrituals/baptism.shtml open ↗
• Mormon church earns $7 billion a year from tithing, analysis indicates — http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/mormon-church-earns-7-billion-year-tithing-analysis-indicates-flna939844 open ↗
• Mormon: Fasting — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/customs/fasting.shtml open ↗
• Name of the Church — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Name_of_the_Church open ↗
• State of Deseret: An Ordinance, incorporating the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=718227 open ↗
• Don't use 'Mormon' or 'LDS' as church name, president says — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-t-use-mormon-or-lds-church-name-president-says-n901491 open ↗
• Stop calling the Mormon Church 'Mormon,' says church leader. 'LDS' is out, too — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/17/stop-calling-the-mormon-church-mormon-says-church-leader-lds-is-out-too/ open ↗
• Most Popular General Authority Speeches Through the Decades — https://speeches.byu.edu/posts/popular-general-authorities-speeches-decades/ open ↗
• Push to ordain Mormon women leads to excommunication — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28890069 open ↗
• Correlation of the Church Administration — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Correlation_of_the_Church_Administration open ↗
• The Perpetual Education Fund: A Model for Educational Microfinance? — SSRN Electronic Journal (2011) — https://doi.org/10.2139%2Fssrn.1822669 open ↗
• Genealogy tourists' flock to Salt Lake City — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna37556270 open ↗
• A House for the Presidency: The History of the Church Administration Building. Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. Matthew O. Richardson. N.D. Accessed March 31, 20 — https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/pdf/SLC%2012%20Richardson.pdf open ↗
• How our personal records ended up in a Mormon mountain vault in Utah — https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-our-personal-records-ended-up-in-a-mormon-mountain-vault-in-utah-20250304-p5lgur.html open ↗
• The Present, Past, and Future of LDS Financial Transparency — Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought (2015) — https://doi.org/10.5406%2Fdialjmormthou.48.1.0001 open ↗
• Kingdom Come — https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,986794,00.html open ↗
• The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World — https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mormon-church-amassed-100-billion-it-was-the-best-kept-secret-in-the-investment-world-11581138011 open ↗
• 1965AAAG...55..191M — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965AAAG...55..191M open ↗
• THE MORMON CULTURE REGION: STRATEGIES AND PATTERNS IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1847–1964 — Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1965) — https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-8306.1965.tb00515.x open ↗
• Not Just for Sundays After Church: A New Generation Redefines Mormon Cuisine — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/a-new-generation-redefines-mormon-cuisine.html?_r=0 open ↗
• One of the most famous singing groups in the world is changing its name. So long, Mormon Tabernacle Choir — https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-mormon-choir-name-change-20181005-story.html open ↗
• Majority of Mormons Lean Republican; Half Cite Discrimination Against Their Faith — https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/pew-survey-most-mormons-feel-they-are-misunderstood-not-viewed-as-mainstream/ open ↗
• Liberal Mormons: A Minority Within a Minority — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/30/mormon-liberals-minority/1669155/ open ↗
• The Rise of the Liberal Latter-day Saints: And the battle for the future of Mormonism — https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/09/27/rise-liberal-latter-day-saints/ open ↗
• Marching in the War on Gay Marriage — https://movies.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18eight.html open ↗
• Mormon Support of Gay Rights Statute Draws Praise — https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12utah.html open ↗
• Mormon church comes out in opposition to Utah's medical marijuana ballot initiative — https://abcnews.go.com/US/mormon-church-opposition-utahs-medical-marijuana-ballot-initiative/story?id=55115518 open ↗
• My Heart Has Changed': Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox Apologizes To LGBT Community — https://www.npr.org/2016/06/15/482206214/my-heart-has-changed-utah-lt-gov-spencer-cox-apologizes-to-lgbt-community open ↗
• The Mormon Corridor: Utah and Idaho — https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rel-by-Region-Mormon-Corridor.pdf open ↗
• The End of Growth? Fading Prospects for Latter-day Saint Expansion — Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association (2023) — https://doi.org/10.54587%2FJMSSA.0102 open ↗
• Education, Religious Participation, and Conservatism Among Mormons in the United States — Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association (2023) — https://doi.org/10.54587%2FJMSSA.0101 open ↗
• When Mormons Aspired to Be a 'White and Delightsome' People — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/mormons-race-max-perry-mueller/539994/ open ↗
• Mormon past steeped in racism — https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-blackmormons-story.html open ↗
• Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims — https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-investigation-child-sex-abuse-9c301f750725c0f06344f948690caf16 open ↗
• Jury awards Riverside woman $2.3 billion in a sex abuse lawsuit that had involved the Mormon church — https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-27/riverside-woman-to-receive-2-3-billion-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit-that-also-accused-the-mormon-church open ↗
• Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen — https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660 open ↗
• The Quest for 'Reformed Egyptian — https://www.jstor.org/stable/27112676 open ↗
• Joseph Smith’s Identification of "Abraham" in Papyrus JS 1, the "Breathing Permit of Hôr" — Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (2000) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F45226744 open ↗
• Mormons seek distance from polygamous sects — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25396937 open ↗
• Century of Black Mormons: Flake, Green — https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/flake-green open ↗
• Why Race Is Still a Problem for Mormons — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/racism-and-the-mormon-church.html open ↗
• Curses and Marks: Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith’s Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham — Journal of Mormon History (2015) — https://doi.org/10.5406%2Fjmormhist.41.3.22 open ↗
• Curses and Marks: Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith’s Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham — Journal of Mormon History (2015) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.41.3.22 open ↗
• Religion of a Different Color (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facprof%3Aoso%2F9780199754076.001.0001 open ↗
• Integrating Religious and Racial Identities: An Analysis of LDS African American Explanations of the Priesthood Ban — Review of Religious Research (1995) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F3511536 open ↗
• Mormon Church Celebration Of 40 Years Of Black Priesthood Brings Up Painful Past — https://www.npr.org/2018/05/31/615911082/mormon-church-celebration-of-40-years-of-black-priesthood-brings-up-painful-past open ↗
• Mormons confront a history of Church racism — https://theconversation.com/mormons-confront-a-history-of-church-racism-95328 open ↗
• Critics Still Question 'Revelation' on Blacks — https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-06-02-8801040230-story.html open ↗
• The BSU takes on BYU and the UW Athletics Program, 1970 — http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/BSU_BYU.htm open ↗
• Choosing to Stay in the Mormon Church Despite Its Racist Legacy — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/black-and-mormon/497660/ open ↗
• Mormons and NAACP seek to advance work with new initiatives — https://apnews.com/article/naacp-race-and-ethnicity-religion-fe1014587d6525b7c23f42ff93339c7e open ↗
• Gathering and Election: Israelite Descent and Universalism in Mormon Doctrine — https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=mormonhistory open ↗
• Imagining Lamanites: Native Americans and the Book of Mormon — https://www.academia.edu/10367006 open ↗
• Indians Hope to Shift Mormon View of Their Skin Color — https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/02/indians-hope-to-shift-mormon-view-of-their-skin-color/8d099524-23ae-484f-879a-c9ab5aad7eb5/ open ↗
• Mormon Church to exclude children of same-sex couples from getting blessed and baptized until they are 18 — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/05/mormon-church-to-exclude-children-of-same-sex-couples-from-getting-blessed-and-baptized-until-they-are-18/ open ↗
• I'm not a Mormon': fresh 'mass resignation' over anti-LGBT beliefs — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/15/mormon-church-lgbt-mass-resignation-protest-utah open ↗
• Sexual orientation change efforts among current or former LDS church members — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260873307 open ↗
• Sexual orientation change efforts among current or former LDS church members. — Journal of Counseling Psychology (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1037%2Fcou0000011 open ↗
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts are Unethical and Harmful — American Journal of Public Health (2020) — https://doi.org/10.2105%2FAJPH.2020.305765 open ↗
• Conservative Christian Identity & Same-Sex Orientation: The Case of Gay Mormons — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269701629 open ↗
• What Do We Know of God's Will for His LGBT Children? An Examination of the LDS Church's Current Position on Homosexuality — https://doi.org/10.5406%2Fdialjmormthou.50.2.0001 open ↗
• Psychosocial Correlates of Religious Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction: A Mormon Perspective — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273248065 open ↗
• Psychosocial Correlates of Religious Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction: A Mormon Perspective — Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health (2014) — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F19359705.2014.912970 open ↗
• Coming out Mormon: An examination of religious orientation, spiritual trauma, and PTSD among Mormon and ex-Mormon LGBTQQA adults — https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/simmons_brian_w_201712_phd.pdf open ↗
• Coming out Mormon — https://athenaeum.libs.uga.edu/handle/10724/38227 open ↗
• Mama Dragons Try To Prevent Suicides Among Mormon-LGBT Children — https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/485058737/mama-dragons-try-to-prevent-suicides-among-mormon-lgbt-children open ↗
• Gay-Marriage Ban Protesters Target Mormon Church — https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96756702 open ↗
• Church Discipline and the Regulation of Membership in the Mormon Church — https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ecclesiastical-law-journal/article/abs/church-discipline-and-the-regulation-of-membership-in-the-mormon-church/4402CB9CD8D94750B2EC6D52BB03403A open ↗
• Church Discipline and the Regulation of Membership in the Mormon Church — Ecclesiastical Law Journal (2003) — https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0956618X00004920 open ↗
• The Trans Mormon Who Won't Let His Church Excommunicate Him — https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-trans-mormon-who-wont-let-his-church-excommunicate-him/ open ↗
• Mormon Man Risks Excommunication By Sharing His Transition — http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/16/mormon-man-risks-excommunication-by-sharing-his-transition.html open ↗
• Transgender and Mormon: keeping the faith while asking the church to change — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/28/transgender-mormon-lgbt-rights-emmett-claren open ↗
• On Broadway, A 'Mormon' Swipe At ... Everything — https://www.npr.org/transcripts/134803453 open ↗
• Mormonism: A Racket Becomes a Religion — https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/04/god-is-not-great-mormonism-a-racket-becomes-a-religion.html open ↗
• Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges — https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mormon-church-has-misled-members-on-100-billion-tax-exempt-investment-fund-whistleblower-alleges/2019/12/16/e3619bd2-2004-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html open ↗
• Mormon Church in Canada moved $1B out of the country tax free – and it's legal — https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mormon-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints-funds-charity-1.6630190 open ↗
• Mormon church invests billions of dollars while grossly overstating its charitable giving — https://www.smh.com.au/national/mormon-church-invests-billions-of-dollars-while-grossly-overstating-its-charitable-giving-20220927-p5blbc.html open ↗
• Feds fine Mormon church for illicitly hiding $32 billion investment fund behind shell companies — https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/mormon-church-multibillion-investment-fund-sec-settlement-rcna71603 open ↗
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints open ↗
• Mormon beliefs and Christian creeds — http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/mormon-beliefs-and-christian-creeds/2011/08/23/gIQAqtduZJ_blog.html open ↗
• Vatican Decides to Rebaptize Mormons Who Are Converting — https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/24/us/vatican-decides-to-rebaptize-mormons-who-are-converting.html open ↗
• FLDS official felt wrath after turning on Warren Jeffs — http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/27/flds-trial-discrimination-warren-jeffs/79414218/ open ↗
• American Religious Identification Survey 2001 — http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris.pdf open ↗
• Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail: History & Culture — http://www.nps.gov/mopi/historyculture/index.htm open ↗
• The Secular Transition: The Worldwide Growth of Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-day Adventists — Sociology of Religion (2010) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fsocrel%2Fsrq022 open ↗
• Por qué ya no quieren ser llamados "mormones" los miembros de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días — https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-45229640 open ↗
• Las 40 esposas del fundador de los mormones y otros "secretos" de la religión — https://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/11/141115_cultura_mormones_poligamia_joseph_smith_ng open ↗
• The Primer – Ayuda a víctimas de violencia doméstica y maltrato infantil en comunidades polígamas. Informe conjunto de las fiscalías generales de Arizona y Utah — http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf open ↗
• La portada que generó polémica — http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2012/07/17/portada-de-businessweek-sobre-la-iglesia-mormona-genera-polemica/ open ↗
• Cyrus Edwin Dallin — http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/d/DALLIN,CYRUS.html open ↗
• Mormon Church to pay fine to settle charges it hid an approximately $32 billion investment fund — https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/21/business/mormon-church-fined-sec/index.html open ↗
• Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.html?pagewanted=all open ↗
• Mormons Reinforce Stand on Same-Sex Marriage — https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/mormons-gay-marriage.html?_r=0 open ↗
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Covenants open ↗
• Estado de Deseret — http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/uthisstat&CISOPTR=1756&REC=4 open ↗
• Migração mórmon — http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?GAID=3&SessionID=3&GA=93&DocTypeID=HR&DocNum=0793&LegID=12984&SpecSess=&Session= open ↗
• Original Land Titles in Utah Territory (em português: Títulos de terra de origem em Território de Utah) — http://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/land-original-title.htm open ↗
• Custo da Hierqarquia — http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986794,00.html open ↗
• Planejamento Financeiro — http://finserve.byu.edu/files/archives/Handouts/November%202005/Finance%20Section%20Draft%207-Without%20Requirements.doc open ↗
• A tradução de Joseph Smith — http://jst.byu.edu/portugues/index.php open ↗
• Quick Facts_ (dados de 2006) — http://unicomm.byu.edu/about/default.aspx?content=quick-facts open ↗
• Joseph Smith’s Identification of "Abraham" in Papyrus JS 1, the "Breathing Permit of Hôr" — Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (2000) — https://dx.doi.org/10.2307%2F45226744 open ↗
• The History of Polygamy — https://heritage.utah.gov/history/uhg-history-polygamy-2 open ↗
• Mormons seek distance from polygamous sects — http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25396937 open ↗
• Curses and Marks: Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith’s Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham — Journal of Mormon History (2015) — https://dx.doi.org/10.5406%2Fjmormhist.41.3.22 open ↗
• Religion of a Different Color (2015) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Facprof%3Aoso%2F9780199754076.001.0001 open ↗
• Slavery in Utah — https://historytogo.utah.gov/slavery/ open ↗
• Integrating Religious and Racial Identities: An Analysis of LDS African American Explanations of the Priesthood Ban — Review of Religious Research (1995) — https://dx.doi.org/10.2307%2F3511536 open ↗
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• Are Mormons Christians? — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/beliefs/christian.shtml open ↗
• Qui sont les mormons ? — https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Qui-sont-mormons-2017-04-07-1200837950 open ↗
• Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours - Les Religions au Canada (voir archive) — http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/religions/frgraph/religions09_f.asp open ↗
• Soutien des mormons aux homosexuels — http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2009/11/11/01011-20091111FILWWW00533-usasoutien-des-mormons-aux-homosexuels.php open ↗
• lire en ligne — http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/EoM&CISOPTR=3666&filename=3667.pdf open ↗
• American Religious Identification author, Egon Mayer, Ph.D. ; Barry A. Kosmin, Ph.D. ; Ariela Keysar, Ph.D. — http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris/key_findings.htm open ↗
• David Van Biema, _Kingdom Come_, Time Magazine, 4 août 1997, p. 2 — http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986794-2,00.html open ↗
• SEC Charges The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Its Investment Management Company for Disclosure Failures and Misstated Filings - sec.gov — https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35 open ↗
• lire en ligne — https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Actualite/Polemique-autour-du-projet-d-edification-d-un-temple-mormon-au-Chesnay-Yvelines-_NG_-2011-12-11-746013 open ↗
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• Encyclopedia of the Great Plains — http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.rel.011 open ↗
• Die Mormonen zwischen Familiensinn und politischem Engagement. — https://www.academia.edu/41693178/Die_Mormonen_zwischen_Familiensinn_und_politischem_Engagement_German_ open ↗
• englischsprachige Version — https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Encyclopedia_of_Mormonism open ↗
• United States_, Abschnitt _People and Society — https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-states/#people-and-society open ↗
• www.bbc.co.uk: _Pre-mortal existence — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/beliefs/existence_1.shtml open ↗
• The Mormon Moment. — https://www.newsweek.com/mormon-moment-67951 open ↗
• A Twist on Posthumous Baptisms Leaves Jews Miffed at Mormon Rite. — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/jews-take-issue-with-posthumous-mormon-baptisms-beliefs.html open ↗
• Ritual für jüdische NS-Opfer – Toten-Taufe bringt Mormonen in Bedrängnis. — http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/ritual-fuer-juedische-ns-opfer-toten-taufe-bringt-mormonen-in-bedraengnis-a-818403.html open ↗
• Mormons feel the backlash over their support of Prop. 8. — https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-17-na-mormons17-story.html open ↗
• Origin of the term from a part of the National Park Service's "The Old Mormon Fort: Birthplace of Las Vegas, Nevada — http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/122fort/122facts1.htm open ↗
• ALFRED CUMMING — http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/c/CUMMING,ALFRED.html open ↗
• “600명이 4000명을 물리쳤다···1951년 기적의 가평 전투” — https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/24073212 open ↗
• Mormonism — Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2015) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199340378.013.75 open ↗
• PAST AND PRESENT PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION REGARDING MARRIAGE — http://lawreview.wustl.edu/inprint/82-3/p%20611%20Stein%20book%20pages.pdf open ↗
• 『海外の宗教事情に関する調査報告書』p. 125 — https://www.bunka.go.jp/tokei_hakusho_shuppan/tokeichosa/shumu_kaigai/pdf/h24kaigai.pdf open ↗
• “Mormons Inc: Church accused of multinational tax rort” — https://www.smh.com.au/national/mormons-inc-church-accused-of-multinational-tax-rort-20220330-p5a98p.html open ↗
• “Making money, losing faith: The Mormons in Australia” — https://www.smh.com.au/national/making-money-losing-faith-the-mormons-in-australia-20220330-p5a9c1.html open ↗
• In Time and Eternity»: Symbols and Mormon History — http://oneonta.academia.edu/RonaldHelfrichJnr/Papers/1488832/In_Time_and_Eternity_Symbols_and_Mormon_History_circa_1992_revisions_2002_2003_2012_ open ↗
• Mormons Kick Back In Casino Town — http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-06-17/news/9306170377_1_mormon-theology-mormon-spokesman-casino-town open ↗
• Gentle Dissent in Mormon Church on Gay Marriage — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/us/dissent-on-gay-marriage-among-mormons.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all open ↗
• What The IRS Could Learn From Mormons — http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/03/02/147749784/what-the-irs-could-learn-from-mormons open ↗
• At Age 19, From Utah to Uganda — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/education/edlife/at-age-19-from-utah-to-uganda.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1346867483-UcvQSu/pdGAhrR8H+xkc8Q open ↗
• Texas Polygamy Raid May Pose Risk — https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/us/12raid.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www open ↗
• Freedom of Religion — http://ocw.usu.edu/university-studies/u-s-institutions/freedom-of-religion.html open ↗
• State of Utah Insurance department — http://www.insurance.utah.gov/docs/BLIC_Fin12-31-07.pdf open ↗
• Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — https://secure.utah.gov/bes/action/details?entity=555534-0145 open ↗
• Who's the Next Mormon President? — http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/01/whos_the_next_mormon_president.html open ↗
• Will Mormons' racial history be a problem for Mitt Romney? — https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-02-01/mormon-romney-black/52920394/1 open ↗
• Brigham Young University — http://home.byu.edu/home/ open ↗
• Brigham Young University - Idaho — http://www.byui.edu/ open ↗
• Brigham Young University—Hawaii — http://byuh.edu/ open ↗
• To Tithe or Not to Tithe... — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/sunday-review/religions-inspire-charity.html?_r=1 open ↗

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