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SALT LAKE CITY In February 1848, Isaac Chase stalled the vigorous swing of his pick at the sound of something metallic in a hole by a creek in what is now Liberty Park.
Chase had arrived in the Salt Lake Valley four months earlier with the first wave of pioneer emigrants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Breaking from the normal emigrant trails west, these pioneers sought the solitude of a new home and the chance to start new.
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Why do some nations refer to their countries as their ‘fatherland’ and some as their ‘motherland’? And does it make a difference in their patriotism?
On social media sites, one occasionally comes across Pakistanis using the term “motherland” for their country. Interestingly though, this term is not used as frequently in Pakistan as it is in India or Russia. It does not figure in Pakistan’s national anthem either. The usage of the term “motherland” is infrequent outside the patriotic literature and rhetoric emerging from the country’s armed forces. The masculine flip of this term is “fatherland”, which is largely used in European nations. Both the terms are often associated with the institutionalisation of the idea of nationalism and the forms of patriotism that it encourages. This should mean that the terms “motherland” and “fatherland” began to appear from the 18th century onwards, when groups of people started
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Series: Murder Among the Mormons Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: A docuseries about a series of bombings in Salt Lake City, and their connection to the Latter Day Saint movement. Why It’s […]
Richard Turley was brought in to supervise the Church History Department in 1986. At the time, the Church was heavily involved in the investigation of a forger by the name of Mark Hofmann. Turley had graduated from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and his legal training proved to be effective in guiding the department through that period of the Church’s history.
In 1992, Turley wrote a book,
Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case, and he was recently interviewed for a Netflix documentary on Hofmann,
Murder Among the Mormons. The documentary, currently in Netflix’s Top 10, has been reviewed this week by everyone from