Item Detail
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32689
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7
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English
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I Am a Child of Gods
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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2022
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55
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1
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Orem, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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99-118
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"The doctrine of Heavenly Mother is cherished among Latter-day Saints. She is birthed from necessity in a physicalist theology. Though she has feminist roots, her theology in Mormonism is laced with latent gender essentialist and complementarian theories. Both have been used in modern Mormonism to exclude the LGBTQ+ community from Mormonism. The assertion that God is composed of one fertile, cisgender, heterosexual couple, namely Heavenly Mother and Heavenly Father, is a narrow interpretation of the broadness of Mormon theology. Though gender essentialist interpretations of Heavenly Mother are queer-exclusionary, her presence in Mormon theology opens the door to a robust polytheism that includes an entire community of gods, diverse in gender, race, ability, and desires. In this paper, I argue that if we are all made in the image of God, God is significantly larger than a fertile, cisgender, heterosexual female and male coupling. Through deification, we all have the potential to become gods. In Mormonism, our theology cannot be fully understood unless it is developed within the bounds of the concrete, material, physical, and practical experiences of our human experience. Theosis, or the process of becoming gods, implies a polytheism filled with generational gods as diverse as all humanity." [Author]
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"A Mother There" : A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Mormon Feminism : Essential Writings
Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction
Queer Polygamy
Rethinking Mormonism's Heavenly Mother
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy : Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men