Item Detail
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27985
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2
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40
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English
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What Jane James Saw
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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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135-151
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[2017 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article on Mormon Women’s History Award]
American religious historian Quincy Newell suggests that we see Mormonism anew when we look with, rather than at, it non-white members. She uses the autobiography of Jane James, an early and prominent black Latter-day Saint, to reframe given narratives of nineteenth-century Mormon history and, more broadly, race and religion in America. Putting James at the center of the story decenters white ecclesiastical elites, displaces the temple as the spiritual nexus of Mormonism, disperses spiritual authority from the male priesthood, and disturbs official remembrances of the religion's founding prophet. Quincy demonstrates how James's life represents and alternative narrative about the locus and nature of charismatic spiritual power and religious authority in early Mormonism and nineteenth-century American religion. [Editor's summary]
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All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
"A Negro Preacher" : The Worlds of Elijah Ables
An Introduction to Mormonism
A Test of Faith : Jane Elizabeth James and the Origin of the Utah Black Community
Becoming a People : The Beliefs and Practices of the Early Mormons, 1830-1845
Black and Mormon
Boundary Maintenance, Blacks, and the Mormon Priesthood
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Elijah Abel : The Life and Times of a Black Priesthood Holder
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
For the Cause of Righteousness : A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013
"Is There No Blessing for Me?" Jane James's Construction of Space in Latter-day Saint History and Practice
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept : Reflections on the 1877 Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings of the Dead
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
'Not to be Riten' : The Mormon Temple Rite as Oral Canon
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Playing Jane : Re-presenting Black Mormon Memory through Reenacting the Black Mormon Past
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Re-Placing Memory : Latter-day Saint Use of Historical Monuments and Narrative in the Early Twentieth Century
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Speaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
The Autobiography and Interview of Jane Elizabeth Manning James
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Democratization of American Christianity
The Development of Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, 1846-2000 : A Documentary History
The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis : "An Example for His More Whiter Brethren to Follow"
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Open Door for Woman : Opened the 17th of March, 1842, by the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prophetic Legacy in Islam and Mormonism : Some Comparative Observations
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
What We Will Do Now That New Mormon History is Old : A Roundtable