Publications

Marianne Meets the Mormons is an elaborate academic work that describes how various representations of Mormonism in nineteenth-century France also functioned as a tool to discuss key French issues of “religion, politics, socialism, gender, the family, and colonialism”. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, professors at Brigham Young University joined forces to produce this impressive analysis of the many facets of Mormonism that ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as LDS or Mormon Church, translates its originally English scriptures worldwide, also in Dutch for its 10,000 members in the Low Lands. The focus in this article is on the Book of Mormon, written in an English biblical style of the 1600s, first translated in Dutch in 1890 and followed by several revisions and a retranslation. This article sketches how LDS translation is conducted in ...

Principes, doelstellingen, structuur en didactische richtlijnen bij het gebruik van de methode Frans En avant. Het boek behandelt ook remediëring, differentiatie en taaleigenheden van een evoluerende Franse taal.

The King James Bible translates the Hebrew אוב (’ō·wḇ) by "familiar spirit". The Book of Mormon uses this same KJV language in its passages reflecting the words of Isaiah. Church translation guidelines to other languages require to understand this noun phrase as the necromantic “spirit of a dead person”. This article first contends that the Hebrew and LXX texts do not warrant such interpretation in Isaiah 29. Second, "familiar spirit" is a ...

In Europe the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been present since the 1850s. At first its message found more response in the traditionally protestant countries. After the Second World War, the Church also expanded in Catholic countries. At the end of 2021, the EU counted close to 280 000 Mormons in 821 congregations, but further progress has been slow. Since the 1990s the Church has welcomed thousands of immigrants, many from ...

De verschillende vraagtypes in het Frans zijn niet alleen uitdagend om correct te verwerven voor een anderstalige, maar ze evolueren ook met de tijd. Wat voorheen ongebruikelijk of zelfs als incorrect bestempeld werd, wordt door populair gebruik, in het bijzonder via de sociale media, steeds verder ingeburgerd. Dit artikel maakt docenten Frans als vreemde taal bewust van die evolutie en geeft didactische raadgevingen hoe er mee om te gaan.

Bespreking van centrale vragen in het vreemdetalenonderwijs, beantwoord vanuit empirisch onderzoek. Oorzaken van het dynamisme in methodes; gebruik van de moedertaal in de taalklas; woordenschatonderwijs in relatie tot ERK-niveaus en eindtermen; aanbrengvormen voorgrammatica; criteria voor leerboeken; dynamiek van kennis versus vaardigheid.

Mormonism, officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was introduced in the Low Countries in the 1860s. In spite of significant emigration to the United States, the present membership is stable and is increasingly multicultural. Living in two heavily secularized countries inside the European Union, local Mormons have to deal with four external dynamics: church interaction with a secular cultural environment, the place of ...