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15317
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English
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Sources of Strain in Mormon History Reconsidered
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Mormonism and American Culture
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New York, NY
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Harper & Row
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147-61
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Here [Thomas F. O'Dea] reconsiders some of the observations made in his earlier work and places the strains he perceived in Mormonism against a contemporary American background. Since the 1950s the problem of race relations has had some effect in creating an unfavorable public image of the Mormon community. O'Dea focuses on this issue as potentially diagnostic in an effort to determine how well the Mormon people are meeting the contemporary problems that confront their society. While the question of the relationship of black people to the church comprises the bulk of this article, O'Dea is really raising a more fundamental question: is the Mormon community preparing its members and converts to do whatever it is that man ought to be doing in this new, complex society? [Editors' summary]
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All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Black and Mormon
Faith and intellect : The lives and contributions of Latter-day Saint thinkers
Mormon History
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Mormon Cross
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Peril and Promise of Social Prognosis : O'Dea and the Race Issue
Thomas F. O'Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life : A Reassessment Fifty Years Later
Thomas F. O'Dea on the Mormons : Retrospect and Assessment