UPDATE 11 January 2010: Kenny and Jake Ballentine, two brothers who make films together, have just announced the upcoming release of a new movie ‘Trouble in Zion’, a documentary on the Missouri Mormon War. Several years ago, Kenny Ballentine read the essay attached to the below posting and talked with me about it while making [...]
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Comparing the Missouri Mormon War with Contemporary Conflicts
January 8, 2010Categories: church history, Mormonism, Peace and Justice, Social Science
Tags: 1838, globalization, Jake Ballentine, Kenny Ballentine, low-intensity conflict, Mary Kaldor, Missouri Mormon War, Mormon, Mormon War, New Wars, Trouble in Zion
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Joseph Smith, Jr. as a Warrior Prophet: Messianic Warlordism in Times of State Fragmentation, Economic Disruption and Religious Upheaval
September 9, 2009In 1986, in the midst of a violent conflict between the newly installed Museveni government and remnants of the former regime, Alice Auma, a spirit-diviner in northern Uganda believed she was commanded by a Christian spirit called ‘Lakwena’ to lead a military-religious rebellion on behalf of the northern Acholi people and bring about heaven on [...]
Categories: church history, Community of Christ, LDS, Peace and Justice, Social Science
Tags: Alice Lakwena, Book of Mormon, Community of Christ, Holy Spirit Movement, Joseph Kony, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith III, Lord's Resistance Army, Missouri Mormon War, Mormon, Nauvoo, Paul Gifford, Uganda, Warlord, Warrior Prophets
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