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The Church Educational System (CES) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) consists of several institutions that provide religious and secular education for both Latter-day Saint and non–Latter-day Saint elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students and adult learners.
Mormon studies is the interdisciplinary academic study of the beliefs, practices, history and culture of individuals and denominations belonging to the Latter Day Saint movement, a religious movement associated with the Book of Mormon, though not all churches and members of the Latter Day Saint movement identify with the terms Mormon or Mormonism.
Some years ago I was chairman of a committee of seminary men responsible to produce a filmstrip on Church history. One of the group, Trevor Christensen, remembered that down in Sanpete County was a large canvas roll of paintings. They had been painted by one of his progenitors, C. C. A. Christensen, who traveled through the settlements giving a ...
Many of the speakers are selected from the LDS Church's Seminary and Institute program or from the faculty of BYU and its sister institutions in Idaho and Hawaii. All sessions in the United States and Canada are organized and managed by the EFY office on the BYU campus in Provo , Utah , where it is part of BYU's CE, with sessions elsewhere ...
The LDS Church describes the purpose of the Institute program as "weekday religious instruction for single and married postsecondary students." [ 1 ] Institutes of Religion are professionally directed as part of the Church Educational System , with responsibility for the seminary program and the church's higher education institutions, including ...
Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, California, United States. Saint-Sulpice Seminary, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.. A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy, in academics, or mostly in ...
Southern Virginia University (SVU) is a private liberal arts college in Buena Vista, Virginia.The college, though not officially affiliated with a particular faith, embraces the values of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
In the United States, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates Seminaries and Institutes of Religion for high schoolers and college students, respectively. These building are generally uniform, though in places with very large populations of Mormon students, may be much larger than the average Seminary or Institute.