Item Detail
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26002
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4
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15
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English
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"Playing the Whore" : The Domestic and Sexual Politics of Mormon Missionary Work on Tahiti Nui and in the Tuamotus
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Journal of Mormon History
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July 2015
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41
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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58-96
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In this article, the author highlights the domestic and sexual politics behind Mormon missionaries traveling to the Pacific islands. She explores the activities of Benjamin F. Grouard as he proselytized to the Tuamotus, a small island chain the South Pacific. Within a few months of his arrivla, Grouard had healed dozens of people, casting out demonsa nd invoking the power of God as he did so. He also married an indigenous woman. For the people of Tuamotus, his marriage offered the community enormous prestige and solidified the alliance between the two communities. His marriage, combined with his prophecies and dramatic invocations of God, led most of the inhabitants of the principal island of Anaa to convert to Mormonism. [From the article]
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