Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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The Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts. Our mission is to deepen understanding and nurture discipleship among Latter-day Saints and to promote mutual respect and goodwill among people of all faiths through the scholarly study of religious texts and traditions.
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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We are delighted to announce that the second printing of Ancient Christians: An Introduction for Latter-day Saints has now arrived and is available at booksellers, including Amazon.com. The first print run was sold out within only a few weeks of arriving at booksellers. The kindle version of this book has also sold very well (available for only $9.99), but it seems clear that for many the gorgeous artwork makes this a book worth owning in print.
“Ancient Christians helps Latter-day Saint readers orient themselves in an early religious world that has remained mostly unknown to many of us ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Welcome to The Questions We Should Be Asking, a new season of the podcast from the Maxwell Institute that explores faith-building questions. In this episode, Rosalynde interviews Kimberly Matheson, a scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religion. She asks the question: why do we pray? And what does prayer look like in our lives?
Kimberly Matheson is a Research Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, with current projects focusing on gender in the Book of Mormon, a materialist theology of prayer, and Moroni 7 as a theological response to modernity. Her researc ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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BYU Green Week 2023 kicks off tonight with a sustainability-themed family home evening. Join BYU Sustainability and the Maxwell Institute at 7PM to learn about how two professors and disciple-scholars strive to be stewards. Ask questions during a Q+A session, and stay for pizza and greens.
The two speakers will be Dr. George Handley and Dr. Steven Peck.
Dr. George Handley is a professor of interdisciplinary humanities here at BYU, and has taught since 1998. He is the author of The Hope and Nature, and If Truth Were A Child. Dr. Handley’s research, creative writing, and civic engagement all exp ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Meet Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, our new host for the MIPodcast. Rosalynde is the Associate Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, where she coordinates faculty engagement and co-leads a special research initiative. Her research focuses on Latter-day Saint scripture, theology, and literature. She holds a PhD in early modern English literature from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA in English from Brigham Young University. She is the author of Ether: a brief theological introduction, published by the Maxwell Institute, as well as numerous article ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Senior research fellow Terryl Givens and his son, Nathaniel Givens, released a new book titled Into the Headwinds on October 18, 2022. Into the Headwinds offers a deeper look at how people individually and collectively form religious beliefs—and what that means for faith in an increasingly secular culture.
Secularism is increasingly a fact of life in Western society. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that faith is harder than it has been before. Even in the past when organized religion enjoyed more widespread cultural acceptance, there were still obstacles to true belief. Today, the obstacles ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Every Needful Thing is a new book published by the Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book, edited by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye and Kate Holbrook. It is a collection of essays from accomplished Latter-day Saint academics and professionals who speak about discipleship not only with their minds but also from their hearts. Instead of pushing us to choose between faith and reason, love and law, truth within the restored gospel and truth in the wider world of God’s children, these writers urge us to seek “anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report” and learn to live in a world of complexity and abunda ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Minerva Teichert (1888-1976), The Sacrament, 1949-1951, oil on masonite, 36 x 48 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1969.
Book of Mormon Art Contest BYU Students may submit up to three entries (1 per category) to the Book of Mormon Art Contest. Winners will be showcased in the Book of Mormon Art Catalog and receive prize money. Fill out an individual form for each submission.
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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After seven years in the position, Hollie and I have decided that I will step down as Maxwell Institute executive director, effective May 1, 2023. We will always treasure our association with so many remarkable scholars, advisory board members, staff, students, university colleagues, and readers. It has been a profound honor to be associated, however indirectly, with the name and legacy of Elder Neal A. Maxwell. Please accept our gratitude for what has been a rich education and fruitful collaboration. We have felt your love and support. We feel blessed to have known and associated with you all ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Kristian Heal’s new book, Genesis 37 and 39 in the Early Syriac Tradition explores the Syriac reception of the story of Joseph and offers an unprecedented glimpse into late antique Syriac literary culture. The story of Joseph inspired the greatest narrative poem written in Syriac, as well as many other diverse and imaginative texts. Heal’s study discusses the retellings of the story of Joseph through a typological lens and how they became an important focus of Christian and Jewish rhetoric. To summarize Genesis 37 and 39 in the Early Syriac Tradition, Heal provided five answers to qu ..read more
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp as a visiting scholar and affiliate faculty. She will join our research community beginning in mid-January.
Dr. Maffly-Kipp is the current Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. After completing her Ph.D. in American History at Yale University, she taught both American and Religious Studies for twenty-four years at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.&n ..read more