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Mormon Oratory
Resources for the Study of LDS Speaking
Gideon O. Burton
Brigham Young University |
Mormon oratory is a prominent phenomenon among Latter-day Saints but has been studied very little. This is a set of basic resources to assistance my students and any others in helping to develop this as a field of academy study.
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Introduction / Overview |
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Gideon Burton, Mormon Oratory: An Introduction
Gideon Burton, Mormon Oratory Bibliography
Gideon Burton (and students), Mormon Speaking Anthology (a proposed table of contents for an anthology that would represent the wide range of Mormon public speaking)
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General Resources |
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BYU Devotionals and Forums (Speeches website)
Find a Talk at BYU Broadcasting (archive of speeches from various BYU conferences and events, and some LDS church events)
General Conference Proceedings (text and some audio, some video)
Podcasts of Mormon Speeches
and Public Events (search "Mormon" or "LDS" using iTunes)
Major Printed Collections
of Mormon Speeches
Mormon Rhetorics
Mormon Periodicals
Speeches at the Mormon Literature Database (references and some full text)
Eugene England - "Going to Conference"
Studies on Mormon Speaking
List of Top LDS Speeches - Juan Henderson
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric |
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Speeches in the Book of Mormon |
- Mosiah 2-4 (King Benjamin)
- Mosiah 15-16 (Abinadi)
- Alma 34 (Amulek)
- Helaman 13-15 (Samuel)
- 3 Nephi 11-17 (Christ)
- Alma 5,7,9,12,32,33,40,41 (Alma)
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19th Century Speeches online |
- See the complete Journal of Discourses now online at BYU Online Collections or here.
- Joseph Smith, “The King
Follett Sermon” See also Sermons
by Joseph Smith
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Sidney Rigdon, Fourth of July Speech, 1838
Background
Info | Fourth
of July Speech, 1838
- Brigham Young, “Recreation,
and the Proper Use of It”
- Brigham Young, Comprehensiveness of True Religion—
The Saints But Stewards
- Levi Edgar Young, “[Gen.
Conf. Address, April 1921]”
- Moses Thatcher, Out of the
Best Books
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