Keywords
Mormonism, intellectual freedom, Latter-day Saints, Church teachings
Abstract
To many outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (and to some of its members), the Church’s teachings and practices appear not only socially and experientially constraining, but intellectually restrictive as well, given its centralized system of doctrinal boundary maintenance and its history of sometimes sanctioning members who publicly dissent from its teachings. Do these practices amount to a constraint of intellectual freedom? This essay argues that they do not, and offers several possible explanations for the commonly-asserted position that they do.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Rick
(2014)
"Mormonism and Intellectual Freedom,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 10, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol10/iss1/11
