Item Detail
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10314
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English
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Wine, Symbolic Boundary Setting, and American Religious Communities
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Fall 1995
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63
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497-517
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Examines the ritual use of wine by religious groups in the United States. The Amana Society and the Mormons included wine when creating their unique religious rituals, although the Mormons gradually adopted a total ban on alcohol because wine was seen as a threat to the internal order of the Mormon faith.