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Church Unity and the Challenge of Cultural Diversity : A View from across the Sahara
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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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72-98
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Walter van Beek draws upon his long anthropological experience in western Africa to argue that the LDS Church will need to come to terms with real cultural variation if it wants to succeed internationally. The church has tried to adopt innocuous forms of "culture" (such as different foods) without actually taking seriously the diversity of cultures around the globe. Critically examining the official church discourse of a universal "gospel culture," van Beek documents the incongruity of "Deseret" culture with African cultural notions of job rotation, bride price (bridewealth), funeral feasts, polygyny, tribal identity and belonging, and religious inclusivity. Even supposed universals such as "family" and "family values" take on considerably different meanings in the context of various cultural formations. Van Beek provocatively asserts that Africa does life and Mormonism does eternity--and since culture is all about this life, Mormonism, in its present form, does not do culture. [Editor's summary]
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