Item Detail
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33112
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2
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20
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English
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Race and Gender in Mormonism: 1830-1978
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Routledge Handbook on Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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26-37
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"In this chapter, we explore the tensions between Mormonism’s universalism and its acceptance of racial and gendered hierarchies from 1830 to 1978. Most scholars who have examined the intersections of race and gender in Mormon history have focused on the policy excluding peoples of Black African descent from receiving priesthood ordination or full participation in the temple liturgy. In this essay, we argue that a variety of religious texts and practices shaped the LDS Church’s interactions with people of color in the United States and throughout the world. We first examine how white Mormons considered the place of Native Americans and peoples of Black African descent before Joseph Smith’s introduction of the endowment and sealing ordinances. Next, we investigate how the Mormon exodus from the Midwest to the Great Basin shaped Mormon interactions with Native peoples in the American West and Mexico. We then scrutinize the place of missionary work among peoples of Asian descent, giving special attention to the first decades of Mormon missionary work in Japan. Finally, we consider the role of the Indian Placement Program and Official Declaration 2 in the late twentieth century." [Authors]
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