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Although the most common themes in Mormon art are historical and principle-based, specific to the LDS faith, the decade following the founding of the church on April 6, 1830, and continuing on through the end of second half of the 19th century, revealed little of these themes.
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]
Likewise, the RSC absorbed the Book of Mormon Institute, a center for research on the Book of Mormon, with Ludlow as its first director in 1965, followed by Paul R. Cheesman in 1968. [ 3 ] In September 1985, at the request of Holland, then BYU's president, the RSC began holding annual symposia on the Book of Mormon. [ 9 ]
The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is the special collections department of Brigham Young University (BYU)'s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1957 with 1,000 books and 50 manuscript collections, as of 2016 the Library's special collections contained over 300,000 books, 11,000 manuscript collections, and over 2.5 million ...
In 1997, the group became a formal part of Brigham Young University (BYU), which is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 2006, the group became a formal part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship , formerly known as the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient ...
Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. ISBN 1-57008-395-9. Crawley, Peter (2005). A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume Two 1848–1852. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. ISBN 0-8425-2603-X. "Die Kirchenzeitschrift". Die Mormonen – ein Blick hinter die Kulissen. Eltern ...
[4]: 5, 52–53 Teichert painted over 400 murals, [12] and is known for those inside the Manti Utah Temple, as well as a set of 42 murals depicting events in the Book of Mormon. [12] [11]: 11 In the mid-1950s, she put the Book of Mormon murals on slides for presentations. Despite wanting to make them available in book form, this would not ...
In 1932, Sperry joined the faculty of Brigham Young University (BYU). In May 1962, he was given the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Teaching Award. He retired in 1971. Among his books were Our Book of Mormon (1947), The Book of Mormon Testified (1952) and Book of Mormon Compendium (1968).