Item Detail
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26009
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English
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"Our Religion Is Not Hostile to Real Science" : Evolution, Eugenics, and Race/Religion-Making in Mormonism's First Century
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2016
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42
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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1-43
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This article illuminates the process by which the LDS Church used science as a means of positioning itself as both authentically religious and racially "white". The author examines Joseph Smith's theology as it relates to evolution and explores how Smith's successors emphasized certain portions of his unique religious thought to proclaim Mormonism not only to be true, but in line with scientific belief. The author shows that Mormonism presented itself as not only spiritually beneficial, but made Latter-day Saints mentally and physically superior to their Christian peers. [From the article]
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