Item Detail
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33055
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English
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The Women's Ordination Movement in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
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Forum: Essentialism and Fluidity in Mormon Constructions of Gender
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Mormon Studies Review
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January 2022
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9
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15-26
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"This brief essay has three goals. First, we seek to acquaint readers with primary and secondary sources for studying women's ordination in the RLDS Church, which are rich and accessible but surprisingly absent from studies of "Mormon women." Second, we seek to bring sociological and historical context to women's ordination in the RLDS Church. These perspectives do not just tell us how RLDS fit within larger trends in American Christianity; they also show that RLDS Church members helped create such cross-cutting trends. Furthermore, they show that women's ordination, rather than being an aberration in the Mormon tradition, is one of the logical, though not inevitable, outcomes of being an American-born church that kept company with other American churches. RLDS, as we will show, kept company with holiness and charismatic groups in their initial phase, and liberal religious denominations after the Second World War. Third, we will present the history of women's ordination as something more than an institutional history and center the voices and scholarship of RLDS women in the telling of it." [Author]
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