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English
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“Arise From the Dust, My Sons, and Be Men” : Masculinity in The Book of Mormon
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Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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This chapter compares masculinity in the Book of Mormon with the masculine ideals of the 19th century. "The Book of Mormon’s prescription for ideal manhood critiques the American culture that it enters, engages with some of the most pressing religious and gender questions of the nineteenth century (such as continuing revelation, sola scriptura, increasing materialism, and changing gender dynamics and responsibilities), and provides the precedent for the religion Joseph Smith founded— a religion that, in its nineteenth-century context, called for its followers to gather to communal societies, to labor spiritually to convert others to their faith, to place fathers as the moral heads of the home, and to seek direct communication with the Lord. To learn how to succeed at such aspirations, nineteenth-century Church members needed only to look to the examples of their spiritual forefathers in The Book of Mormon." [Author]
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