Item Detail
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English
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The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message of the Book of Mormon
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Interpreter : A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
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2021
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42
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Provo, UT
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Interpreter Foundation
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195-370
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"Attitudes of superiority lead to societal conflict. The racial interpretation of a few Book of Mormon verses has contributed to these attitudes and conflicts, yet hundreds of inclusive messages are found in more than half of the book’s verses. God’s message, love, mercy, and justice are for all people. Righteous people did not think themselves above others, nor did they persecute others or start wars. War is tragic and is caused by wickedness. Conspiracies are a great evil. Righteous people were kind in their attitudes and actions, regardless of others’ social status or ethnicity. Some Book of Mormon people even gave their lives or put their lives at risk to act kindly, and some of these went from hating others to giving up their lives on behalf of others. The inclusive messages in the Book of Mormon are consistent with the position advocated by current Latter-day Saint leaders condemning all racism and disavowing racist hypotheses such as those derived from a few Book of Mormon verses (i.e., that skin color is related to righteousness). The inclusive messages also are consistent with the view that skin color in the Book of Mormon is not literal but is metaphorical. The Book of Mormon instructs us that the right way to interact is with love and respect, through examples of people respecting and reaching out to others, promises to all people, condemnation of unkindness and anti-Semitism, calls to all people to repent, and emphasizing the flaws of one’s own group and not those of others." [Article Abstract]
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Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon
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Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Kinship, The Book of Mormon, and Modern Revelation
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Lamanites, Apologetics, and Tensions in Mormon Anthropology
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Losing a Lost Tribe : Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
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No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
'No Respecter of Persons' : A Mormon Ethics of Diversity
Open Canons : Sacred History and American History in The Book of Mormon
Perspectives on Mormon Theology : Apologetics
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Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Second Witness : Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Since Cumorah : The Book of Mormon in the Modern World
'Skin' or 'Scales' of Blackness? Semitic Context as Interpretive Aid for 2 Nephi 4 : 35 (LDS 5 : 21)
Skins as Garments in the Book of Mormon :
A Textual Exegesis
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Charge of 'Racism' in the Book of Mormon
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The Political Dimension in Nephi's Small Plates
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