Item Detail
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English
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Peruvian Mormon Matchmaking: The Limits of Mormon Endogamy at Zion's Border
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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419-431
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“Arranged marriage is as uncommon in most Andean Catholic communities as it is in most U.S. Mormon communities. Why then does matchmaking emerge in this particular convergence of the two? A partial answer stems from Peruvian coresident siblingship and how it complicates the probability involved in finding an eligible Mormon to marry. However, this answer unearths a deeper question: what defines Mormon eligibility? In exploring the unanswerability of this question through the contradictory love lives of Peruvian Mormons in the Periféricos Ward of Arequipa, I uncover an underlying paradox at the core of Mormon kinship, one generated by the dynamic tension among lineage and love and among conversion and covenant birth. I argue that channeling this tension into the exclusion of unworthy marriage partners creates a sieve that determines who gets to be ‘Mormon’ enough to enter Zion.” [Author]
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