29329

Journal Article

English

Reiter, Tonya

Black Saviors on Mount Zion : Proxy Baptisms and Latter-day Saints of African Descent

Journal of Mormon History

October 2017

43

4

Champaign, IL

University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association

2017

100-123

The article explores the history of the policy governing the practice of allowing or disallowing Mormons of African descent to participate in vicarious baptism. Topics covered include temple restrictions placed on Mormon members of African descent, proxy baptisms done by Latter-Saints of African descent and the policy formulated by President Brigham Young and other Church leaders on the worthiness of men of African descent to hold the priesthood.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.43.4.0100

Blacks, priesthood
Blacks, U.S.
Doctrinal history, baptism for the dead
Doctrinal history, Blacks
Young, Brigham, teachings

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10

Mormons and Lineage : The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

"Temple Pro Tempore" : The Salt Lake City Endowment
A Test of Faith : Jane Elizabeth James and the Origin of the Utah Black Community
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormonism in Black Africa : Changing Attitudes and Practices, 1830-1981
Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Samuel D. and Amanda Chambers
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Negro Pioneer