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English
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"Tell Eve About Serpent" : A Qualitative Study Of The Effects Of Temple Participation In The Lives Of Young Adult Mormons
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Berkeley, California
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Graduate Theological Union
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272
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Master's Thesis
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This thesis is a qualitative study of the effects of temple participation in the lives of young adult Mormons between the ages of 21 and 35 living in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Through interviews with 13 men and women, this study explores these individuals' experiences--including thoughts, feelings, and insights--about participating in temple worship. This study also discusses the role preparation played in each participants' initial endowment experience. A brief history of temples as sacred structures beginning with the Enuma elish flood/creation myth through the Mormon restoration of temple building in the present day, is given.