Sample sentences for MORMONISM

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Definition

the doctrines and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830; known for pairs of bicycling missionaries, rapid growth, and for its abandoned practice of polygamy

The Mormon church keeps especially good genealogy (family ancestry) records because adherents believe they can intercede with God on their ancestors' behalf.

I had first heard her name when I was twelve, which is the year that, in Mormonism, you cease to be a child and become a woman.
Tara Westover -- Educated

Mormonism = the doctrines and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830; known for pairs of bicycling missionaries, rapid growth, and for its abandoned practice of polygamy

The chapter on Mormonism was my favorite.
Tara Westover -- Educated

One of the movements I chose was nineteenth-century Mormonism.
Tara Westover -- Educated

On the other hand, secular histories tended to overlook spiritual movements like Mormonism altogether.
Tara Westover -- Educated

Instead, it treated the Mormon ideology as a chapter in the larger human story.
Tara Westover -- Educated

Mormon = the doctrines and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830; known for pairs of bicycling missionaries, rapid growth, and for its abandoned practice of polygamy

Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story.
Tara Westover -- Educated

My dissertation gave a different shape to history, one that was neither Mormon nor anti-Mormon, neither spiritual nor profane.
Tara Westover -- Educated

My dissertation gave a different shape to history, one that was neither Mormon nor anti-Mormon, neither spiritual nor profane.
Tara Westover -- Educated

In my account, history did not set Mormons apart from the rest of the human family; it bound them to it.
Tara Westover -- Educated

Mormons = the doctrines and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830; known for pairs of bicycling missionaries, rapid growth, and for its abandoned practice of polygamy

In Mormonism, the priesthood is God's power to act on earth—to advise, to counsel, to heal the sick, and to cast out demons.
Tara Westover -- Educated

You can do something no one has done: you can examine Mormonism not just as a religious movement, but as an intellectual one.
Tara Westover -- Educated

While reading for my master's thesis, I'd been surprised to discover echoes of Mormon theology in the great philosophers of the nineteenth century.
Tara Westover -- Educated

Like Tyler's wife, Stefanie, Kami was an outsider: she was a Mormon, but she was what Dad would have called "mainstream."
Tara Westover -- Educated

She heard Mormon missionaries preaching in the streets of Norway.
Tara Westover -- Educated

She sang him a Mormon hymn called '0 My Father.'
Tara Westover -- Educated

The journey was long and harsh, and by the time they made it to Idaho, to a Mormon settlement called Worm Creek, Anna's mother was sick, dying.
Tara Westover -- Educated

She told her father, but he'd heard stories about the Mormons and wouldn't allow her to be baptized.
Tara Westover -- Educated

Like me, and almost everyone at BYU, Mark was Mormon.
Tara Westover -- Educated

I didn't tell her that I'd learned to read and write by reading only the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and speeches by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
Tara Westover -- Educated

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