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English
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Inventing Mormon Identity in Tonga
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University of California, Berkeley
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Ph.D. diss.
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"This is a study of religious identity as a basis for social action. It examines how Tongans invent a distinctive Tongan Mormon identity which achieves a viable representation of the American Mormon model, while at the same time preserving much of the Tongan cultural logic which makes social life possible, and their reading of their world meaningful. As the title of this dissertation also implies, Tongan Mormon identity is as well an invention of Americans. Their historical perceptions and unique symbolic construction of Tongans have informed the course of Tongans' reconstitution as Mormons. Tongan Mormons must both represent and negotiate meaning vis a vis American Mormons and other Tongan Christians. This study examines both the construction of meaning within Tongan Mormon community, belief and practice, and the ongoing reproduction of differences between the Mormons and adherents of the other Tongan churches. It locates these cultural constructions of meaning and their deployment in some key areas of Tongan experience: national identity, inter-church relations, and family and economic cooperation." [Author's abstract]
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