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The BYU newspaper The Daily Universe reported that Arizona's committee determined that BYU was not racist, but was an "isolated institution whose members simply do not relate to or understand black people." BYU football players were met by 75 picketers demonstrating against racism at BYU when they played Arizona a week after the report. [26]
May - A BYU religion professor with a large social media following publicly calls a gay BYU student a Book of Mormon term for an anti-Christ, drawing media criticism. [259] The gay student also receives death threats from others, but there is no public action against the professor by BYU. [260] [259]
The Maxwell Institute was established in 2006 as an umbrella organization for several of BYU's academic initiatives, including: the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI), the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART), the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). [2]
BYU TV (stylized as BYUtv) is a television channel and free family-friendly streaming service, founded in 2000, which is owned and operated as a part of Brigham Young University (BYU). [1] The channel, available on most smart TVs or through cable and satellite distributors in the United States , produces original series and documentaries ...
The RSC (sometimes called the Center for Religious Studies in its early years) [2] [3] was founded in 1975 by Jeffrey R. Holland, dean of Religious Education at BYU. [4] Upon the recommendation of BYU president Dallin H. Oaks, the establishment of the RSC was approved by BYU's Board of Trustees in early 1976. [3]
BYU Studies is a multidisciplinary academic journal covering a broad array of topics related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon studies). It is published by the church-owned Brigham Young University. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the ATLA Religion Database. [1]
1988 – Gay BYU history professor and former BYU student [61] Michael Quinn resigned under increasing pressure for publications on controversial aspects of Mormon history [62] [63] after working for the university since 1976. [64] [65] He was later excommunicated in September 1993 along with other LDS scholars referred to as the September Six.
Kathryn M. "Kathy" Daynes (born 1946) [1] is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a historian of Mormonism, specializing in Mormon polygamy. She was president of the Mormon History Association in 2008 and 2009. Daynes was born in 1946 and began her studies as an undergraduate at BYU in 1964.