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English
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Imaging a Global Religion, American Style : Mormon Pageantry as a Ritual of Community Formation
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By our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint views on ritual in scripture, history, and practice
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Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT
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The Religious Studies Center, BYU; Deseret Book Company
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317-348
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Among ritual scholars, there is a growing appreciation for the relationship between ritual experience and performance. With this in mind, Megan Sanborn Jones examines the ritualized nature of pageants in LDS history and practice, particularly in the manner by which they standardize LDS concepts of individuality and community. Though her model is the 1997 Sesquicentennial Spectacular, no doubt the reader will gain insight into other LDS pageants, such as the Manti Temple Pageant, the Hill Cumorah Pageant, the Days of ’47 Parade in Salt Lake City, and even the pageantry performed on a stake or ward level. [Daniel Belnap]