Item Detail
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30835
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1
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6
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English
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History that Reveals Itself
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Journal of Mormon History
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2009
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35
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3
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Layton, Utah
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Mormon History Association
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230-234
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"I SUPPOSE I SHOULD HAVE FORESEEN my academic mentor’s quizzical response when I told him of my plans to participate in a meeting of the Mormon History Association. I am, after all, a folklorist whose work primarily focuses on African-derived religious traditions in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. The expression on his face presaged his exasperated comment: “I just don’t get this Mormon business.” To his mind, my research has now veered into some odd corner of white American religious enthusiasm, a puzzling infatuation with a peculiar movement whose origins and principles appear to him almost antithetical to my scholarly agenda. Short of employing the Urim and Thummim, I wonder if I’ll ever really be able to make him see clearly why we should encourage these Saints to come marching into our broader understanding of black Atlantic cultural history." [Author]
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