Item Detail
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28237
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English
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Jane James's Agency
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Salt Lake City
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The University of Utah Press
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136-148
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"In what follows, I [examine] the life of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a nineteenth-century black Mormon woman. Doubly marginalized within the church by her gender and her race, James nevertheless had a rich, satisfying spiritual life. I use the work of Mack and others on women's agency to illuminate the seeming paradox of James's apparently willing submission to the church's discriminatory racial policies and her simultaneous creation of a full, compelling religious experience. Ultimately, the question is not whether James had agency, but rather what forms that agency took. Jame's life makes little sense until we place it in the cosmic framework in which she understood her own life, modifying scholarly notions of agency to de-emphasize individual liberation and instead focusing on the religious community and religious understandings of salvation" [AUTHOR]