Game theory has been applied to a number of disciplines, including economics, law, politics, sociology, and Bible studies, but this article is the first serious attempt to apply it to the Book of Mormon narrative. One particularly important model in game theory is known as the Prisoner's Dilemma, which emphasizes the possibility and benefits of cooperation in the face of conflict. The Book of Mormon account is an almost constant narrative based on conflict, first within the family of Lehi and then between two warring factions that arise from a split in that original Book of Mormon family. These conflicts tend to fit the Prisoner's Dilemma model extremely well. In a final estimation, the Prisoner's Dilemma and its application in the Book of Mormon provide another way of looking at the Book of Mormon's core messages of atonement, redemption, and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-16DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780195384031.001.0001
R. L. Neilson
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION 1. : 1 Before the Chicago World's Fair: Exhibiting Mormonism in America, 1830-1892 2. : 2 The Utah World's Fair Commission: The Utah Territory at the 1893 Columbian Exposition 3. : Mormon Matriarchs: LDS Ladies at the 1893 World's Congress of Representative Women 4. : Sweet Singers of Zion: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the 1893 Welsh Eisteddfod 5. : Mormonism's Blacksmith Orator: Brigham H. Roberts at the 1893 World's Parliaments of Religions 6. : After the Chicago World's Fair: Exhibiting Mormonism in America, 1893-1934 INDEX
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Pub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199827954.003.0010
Stephen H. Webb
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{"title":"\"God Has Made Us a Kingdom\": James Strang and the Midwest Mormons. by Vickie Cleverey Speek","authors":"R. Terry","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-2234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-2234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40616,"journal":{"name":"BYU Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71118586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Val D. Rust Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors","authors":"Jenny Hale Pulsipher","doi":"10.5860/choice.42-2760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-2760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40616,"journal":{"name":"BYU Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74096292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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