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SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 215: Body and Soul: Mormon Theology and the Plan of Salvation in Stephenie Meyers’ The Host
Karen Smyth, Michael Austin and Paul Goodfellow present their topic on August 2, 2013. [powerpress]
SW09012: Saturday’s Werewolf: Vestiges of Premortal Romance in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Novels
Within the world of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels, a mode of romantic relationship called “imprinting”–instigated by sudden recognition and then lasting eternally–bears a strong similarity to the premortal romance popularized in Mormon literature since the publication of Nephi Anderson’s Added Upon. In basic structure, the premortal romance begins before mortality and drives the lovers to …
SL09371 Panel: Do Mormons Dream of Monstrous Gods? Interpreting Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Myth
Mormon mom and BYU grad Stephenie Meyer created a myth so compelling, her Twilight series sold 42 million books worldwide and migrated to the movie screen and grossed $188 million. As the bestselling fiction author of 2008, Meyer is the biggest publishing phenomenon since J.K. Rowling. She has sold more books than any Mormon author …
Growing with Sunstone
By Stephen Carter I‘m certainly not the youngest person to helm Sunstone Magazine, but I am the first editor to be as old as the magazine itself, both of us being born in 1975. Though I was not raised in a household that subscribed to Sunstone, or any other independent Mormon publication (I was kept …
Wanna Know What Women Want?
by Tracie Lamb I knew I needed to read Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga when we were on vacation in Hawaii two years ago. As the sun shone down and the waves lapped the shore, my fifteen year old daughter and her friend spent much of their time reading although they are normally active and outdoorsy. …
Saturday’s Werewolves: Twilight, monsters, and Mormons
For all the online chatter about Stephenie Meyer and her Scary Mormon Agenda, most alarmed bloggers have overlooked how her monsters—werewolves in particular—fall into a classic Mormon literary pattern: the Premortal Romance.