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English
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Narrating Apostasy and the LDS Quest for Identity
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Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
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Oxford, New York
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Oxford University Press
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93-128
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The church’s online timeline of the Great Apostasy differs in attitude from the conversion narratives that early Latter-day Saints told to negotiate their new LDS identity with their previous religious affiliations, narratives that Christopher Jones and Stephen Fleming describe in the second chapter in this volume. In addition, the compressed scope of the timeline differs from the confessional church histories written at the turn of the twentieth century, histories that Eric Dursteler and Matthew Bowman examine in the first and third chapters. This chapter will trace how narratives of apostasy changed in LDS discourse over the course of the twentieth century, and it will consider the impact of these narratives in the development of Mormon historical consciousness as the church transformed from a persecuted minority sect to a respected international religion. It concludes by imagining possibilities of refashioning LDS historical narratives in inclusive and nuanced ways to aid the church in responding to the challenges of the next century. [From the article]
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