Item Detail
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28817
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3
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3
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English
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The Zoramite Separation : A Sociological Perspective
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2005
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14
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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74-85, 129-30
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"The Zoramites' transformation from the quiescent dissidents to aggressive enemies of their former brethren and mother culture is a powerful study of human nature. The Book of Mormon does not delineate the reasons that the Zoramies separated themselves from the larger population at Zarahemla, but they obviously felt a great deal of animosity toward their former brethen. Perhaps they had been marginalized in Nephite society because of their ethnicity. They constructed a culture that deliberately differed in many ways from that at Zarahemla, and they expelled all who were converted by Alma. Because of their extremem hatred of the Nephites, the Zoramites ultimately joined with the Lamanites as fierce enemies of the Nephites." [abstract provided]