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English
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Inventing Mormon Identity in Tonga
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Berkeley, CA
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University of California, Berkeley
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PhD
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"Why the Mormon system is so attractive to many Tongans, and how this uniquely American church has become 'Tonganized' like other imported institutions to this Polynesian society, is the subject of this dissertation. Specifically, I examine how Tongans invent a distinctive Tongan Mormon identity which achieves a viable representation of the Mormon model, while at the same time preserving much of the Tongan cultural logic which makes social life possible, and their reading of their world meaningful. As the title of this dissertation also implies, Tongan Mormon identity is as well an invention of Americans. Their historical perceptions and unique symbolic construction of Tongans have informed the course of Tongans’ reconstitution as Mormons." [Author]
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