I spoke March 26 3pm at Utah Valley University on “Decomposition and Material Continuity: the Cultural Work of Early Mormon Materialism,” putting a human face on early Mormon ideas about “materialism,” their concept that all substance, including spiritual substance, is made from matter, an idiosyncratic inversion of philosophical materialism.
    
Samuel Brown—physician leader, medical researcher, and cultural historian—is Professor of Medicine at Intermountain Medical Center/University of Utah Trained at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Brown researches and writes at the interfaces among medicine, religion, culture, and history. 
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