Item Detail
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26762
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English
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"Shake Off the Dust of Thy Feet" : The Rise and Fall of Mormon Ritual Cursing
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2013
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46
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1
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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108-139
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In July 1830, just three months after the formal organization of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith dictated a revelation that promised that in whatsoever place one shall enter in and they receive him not in his name shall leave a cursing instead of a blessing by casting off the dust of his feet against them as a testimony and cleansing his feet by the wayside. Subsequently, the historical record is replete with examples of ritual cursing being performed up through the 1890s. While many of Smith's revelations and doctrinal innovations continue to be practiced by the Latter-Day Saints Church today, cursing has fallen into disuse. Despite this ritual's unique status as an act of formally calling down God's wrath upon others, it has received surprisingly little attention in scholarly studies. Here, Day examines ritual cursing within Mormonism, and the decline and discontinuation of the cursing ritual.
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