Item Detail
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25983
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4
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19
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English
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Sonia's Awakening : White Mormon Expatriates in Africa and the Dismantling of Mormonism's Racial Consensus, 1852-1978
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 2014
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40
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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208-247
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Sonia Johnson' story is not one but many stories-the story of the Mormon people coming to grips with racial consciousness. This article tells the story of Mormon expatriates living in Africa from the 1850s through 1978, focusing on how they represent the emergence of a global mentalite in modern Mormonism. The forces molding their perceptions of race were complex and varied; while theology certainly played a major role in the formation of their racial assumptions, the geographic, lived experience of Africa had a tendency to overpower whatever theological assumptions they had brought with them to the continent. While Mormons in Utah were locked in a bitter struggle over questions regarding civil rights, Africa molded those visiting Saints into the kind of community who could accept the 1978 revelation. [From the article]
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