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28016
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English
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Hugh Nibley and the "Inmigration" of Mormon Education
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Dead Wood and Rushing Water : Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books
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155-167
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Mormons have learned to use language that speaks to outsiders and insiders, the secular and the Saints. I would like to illustrate this idea of divided sense of self and the accompanying coping mechanism of coded language by looking at the life and thought of Hugh Nibley, who was not so much an outmigrant as an inmigrant, growing up outside of Utah and migrating to Provo at the age of thirty-five. In March of 2010, it will be the one-hundredth anniversary of Hugh's birth, so it is, I believe, an appropriate time to look back and reflect on his contribution to Mormon thought and identity, and perhaps think of ways his coping mechanism for this double consciousness may compare with that employed by the broader community. [From the text]