Item Detail
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31322
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4
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13
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English
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The Celestial City : “Mormonism” and American Identity in Post-Independence Nigeria
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African Studies Review
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2020
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63
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2
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Cambridge, England
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Cambridge University Press
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304-330
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"This article uses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in post-independence Nigeria to examine the transition from individuated agents of religious exchange to integration into global corporate religiosity. Early Latter-day Saint adherents saw Mormonism as a mechanism by which they could acquire access to monetary resources from a financially stable Western patronage, despite political animosity due to Mormonism's racist policies and sectional tumult during the Nigeria-Biafra war. Drawing on oral and archival records, this article highlights how Mormonism as an American-based faith was able to be "translated" to meet the exigencies of indigenous adherents." [Author]
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Letting Go : Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormonism and the Negro
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Sonia's Awakening : White Mormon Expatriates in Africa and the Dismantling of Mormonism's Racial Consensus, 1852-1978
The LDS Church and the Problem of Race : Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946–1978
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
"We Have Prophetesses" : Mormonism in Ghana, 1964-79
Would-Be Saints : West Africa before the 1978 Priesthood Revelation