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English
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"A Marvelous Work": Reading Mormonism in West Africa
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The Arrington Lecture Series no. 26
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Merrill-Cazier Library
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"Two decades before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began official missionary work in West Africa, pamphlets, books, and other church materials had been circulating among Christians in Nigeria and Ghana. Brought by seekers who had studied abroad or encountered church members from other countries, those texts formed the basis for a Mormon community outside the bounds of U.S. institutional authority or oversight. What did this international Mormonism look like, and how did believers craft churches out of the bare materials of tracts and inspirational volumes? Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp explores the circulation and interpretation of this homegrown Mormon faith in the 1960s and 1970s and concludes with the dilemmas raised by the religious self-fashioning of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints establishment after 1978." [Summary from Amazon.com]
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LeGrand Richards : Beloved Apostle
The Dawning of a Brighter Day : The Church in Black Africa
The King James Bible and the Future of Missionary Work
The LDS Church and the Problem of Race : Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946–1978
To Recognize One’s Face in That of a Foreigner : The Latter-day Saint Experience in West Africa
"We Have Prophetesses" : Mormonism in Ghana, 1964-79
Would-Be Saints : West Africa before the 1978 Priesthood Revelation