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English
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The Scattering of the Gathered and the Gathering of the Scattered : The Mormon Diaspora in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series, 1984-2014
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St. George, UT
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Dixie State University
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71-90
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In this chapter, the author examines the impact of the Saints' gathering in the West on the sense of LDS identity and existence of Mormon ethnicity. He states that the community of Saints repeatedly demonstrated an ability to assimilate into itself many people from different cultures who had accepted the Mormon gospel.
"While historians and folklorists can separate out culture areas in Utah - the Danes in SanPete County, for example, and British, German, and Swiss culture areas elsewhere in the Great Basin - unlike the situation found in American Lutheran and Catholic folds, where there have always been German Lutherans and Swedish Lutherans and Irish Catholics and Italian Catholics and so on, the nineteenth-century gathered community of Saints turned Danes into Mormons, Britons into Mormons, Germans into Mormons, and so on." [From the text]
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Beyond "Surreptitious Staring" : Migration, Missions, and the Generativity of Mormonism for the Comparative and Translocative Study of Religion
Canadian Mormons : History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Location Veneration : Independence, Missouri, in Latter-day Saint Zionist Tradition and Thought
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Pioneers in the Attic : Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism