Item Detail
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31974
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English
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“A More Universal Sisterhood” : Latter-day Saints in the National Council of Women, 1888–1987
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Journal of Mormon History
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2021
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47
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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87-124
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"One of the most illustrative and enduring examples of Latter-day Saints' efforts to ally themselves with national organizations while still maintaining their unique religious identity is the Relief Society’s nearly one-hundred-year membership in the National Council of Women of the United States (NCW). This relationship emerges as a microcosm for the larger trends of integration and isolation in the Church of Jesus Christ during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Latter-day Saint presence in the NCW offers a striking and often overlooked example of the dynamics of this transitional period. The isolationism characteristic of the nineteenth-century church necessarily shifted by the 1890s in response to intense national opposition, creating space for more collaborative engagement with the outside world. The persistent necessity to maintain theological distinctiveness collided at times with their sincere desire to advance society and achieve modern respectability. Examining how Relief Society women negotiated their identities as both councilwomen as well as Saints reveals how overarching tensions between assimilation and separation limited their full attainment of universal sisterhood but enabled their worldwide influence." [Author]
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