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English
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Colonization of the Mormon Mind
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Association for Mormon Letters Annual
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2000
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14-23
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Colonization of the Mormon mind is influenced by the physical colonization of the religion. Bushman used examples of how Mormons were influenced by Orientalists and disaffected sects such as the Godbeites. We cannot isolate ourselves from the past; however, if we are aware of the narrow-mindedness as a result of colonization, we can gain some freedom from its influence. The ideal would be to 'voice our Mormonism more freely, more imaginatively, and more faithfully.'