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English
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Mormon Ethnicity as Reality and Metaphor
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Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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35-45
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Jan Shipps traces the development of Mormonism in the early to mid-twentieth century by showing how the concept of Mormon ethnicity became less literal as a result of an increased number of conversions. Nevertheless, ethnicity continued to play and important part in the construction and maintenance of Mormon identity, ultimately taking the form of peoplehood, a concept that Mormons could readily access whether they were blood descendants of pioneers or first-generation converts. The concept of the Mormon people thus became the twentieth-century equivalent of a Mormon ethnos, and provided a powerful shared identity for the LDS Church's increasingly diverse membership. [Editor's summary]
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