Materialism
Preoccupation with worldly possessions and wealth, contrary to spiritual priorities.
46 documents · 7 libraries · 1962–2025
Emphasis over time
Peak: 4 documents in 1973
Documents tagged with this topic each year. Libraries cover different years (Liahona starts in 2021), so the rate compares eras more fairly than the count.
Where it lives
- General Conference32 documents
- BYU Speeches4 documents
- BYU Studies3 documents
- Scripture Central3 documents
- Religious Educator2 documents
- Interpreter1 document
- Liahona Articles1 document
Latest
Liahona Articles
Money Can’t Buy Happiness, but Christ Offers Joy Freely (opens in a new tab)
Simona Love · Jan 2025
Scripture Central
Why Does the Book of Mormon Warn Against Seeking after Riches? (opens in a new tab)
Scripture Central · Jan 2021
Scripture Central
Why Did Nephi Prophesy Near “the Highway Which Led to the Chief Market?” (opens in a new tab)
Scripture Central · Aug 2020
Scripture Central
Why did Mormon Emphasize the Zoramites’ Costly Apparel? (opens in a new tab)
Scripture Central · Aug 2019
Religious Educator
Nonjudgmentalism Strikes Back: Moral Relativism and Conviction (opens in a new tab)
Daniel H Frost · 2017
Interpreter
Rick Anderson · 2016
General Conference
The Parable of the Sower (opens in a new tab)
Dallin H. Oaks · Apr 2015
General Conference
Where Your Treasure Is (opens in a new tab)
Michael John U. Teh · Apr 2014
Religious Educator
The Uses of Adversity (opens in a new tab)
D. Todd Christofferson · 2013
BYU Speeches
“They Shall Ask the Way to Zion” (opens in a new tab)
Shawn W Miller · Aug 2010
Earliest
BYU Studies
The Anti-Christian Background of German Literary Naturalism (opens in a new tab)
R. Max Rogers · 1962
Most frequent voices
- L. Tom Perry5 documents
- Dallin H. Oaks2 documents
- Ezra Taft Benson2 documents
- H. David Burton2 documents
- Jeffrey R. Holland2 documents
- Joseph B. Wirthlin2 documents
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