Item Detail
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29243
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English
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The Mormon Ward : Congregation or Community?
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2018
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44
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1
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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150-173
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"The Mormon ward seems to be somewhere between the casualness of a congregation and the totality of a monastic order. It carries out the basic functions of most Christian congregations, which are the locus of the life cycle from birth to death. But there are essential communitarian functions also-the fellowship, the communion, the association. The ward has a distinctive Mormon mix that is beyond a congregation..." [From the text]