{"id":37677,"date":"2018-02-06T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=37677"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:24:04","slug":"mormon-social-science-association-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/mormon-social-science-association-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Social Science Association Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mormon Social Science Association is having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mormonsocialscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MSSA2018OneDay.pdf\">conference at Utah Valley University on February 21st<\/a> from 1:00 PM &#8211; 6:45 PM. This looks to be particularly interesting. The featured speakers are Marie Cornwall and Jana Riess.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Cornwall is speaking on &#8220;Lessons Learned from a Historical Perspective on Women&#8217;s Lives.&#8221; There&#8217;s been some amazing work on women in Mormon history the past few years. I think we&#8217;re getting some important attention on perspectives that have been unduly neglected in how people look at the past of Mormonism.<\/p>\n<p>Jana Riess is speaking on Mormon Millennials and generational change. I suspect this will in large part figure her recent survey and the associated data. There&#8217;s been a lot of recent statistical work, particularly from Pew, noting a pretty significant realignment both to a degree with Millennials but more particularly with the younger generation. Riess&#8217; title for her presentation &#8220;From Institutional to Relational Authority&#8221; suggests the nature of that shift. <\/p>\n<p>There are several other presentations, many of which sound particularly interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mormon Social Science Association is having a conference at Utah Valley University on February 21st from 1:00 PM &#8211; 6:45 PM. This looks to be particularly interesting. The featured speakers are Marie Cornwall and Jana Riess. Marie Cornwall is speaking on &#8220;Lessons Learned from a Historical Perspective on Women&#8217;s Lives.&#8221; There&#8217;s been some amazing work on women in Mormon history the past few years. I think we&#8217;re getting some important attention on perspectives that have been unduly neglected in how people look at the past of Mormonism. Jana Riess is speaking on Mormon Millennials and generational change. I suspect this will in large part figure her recent survey and the associated data. There&#8217;s been a lot of recent statistical work, particularly from Pew, noting a pretty significant realignment both to a degree with Millennials but more particularly with the younger generation. Riess&#8217; title for her presentation &#8220;From Institutional to Relational Authority&#8221; suggests the nature of that shift. There are several other presentations, many of which sound particularly interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37678,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37677\/revisions\/37678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}