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English
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A People’s History of Book of Mormon Archaeology: Excavating the Role of “Folk” Practitioners in the Emergence of a Field
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2023
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56
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3
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Dialogue Foundation
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1-42
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This article discusses the distinction between official and folk culture, specifically concerning Book of Mormon archaeology. It describes the expeditions and claimed findings of people such as Jose Davila, Jesus Padilla, and John Brewer, citing them as folk practitioners who used a combination of scientific and spiritual methods to produce and verify their findings. Their work, however, had no place in official church channels.
"The spiritual archaeologists’... experiences present a case study of religious revitalization and the sect-church process by which new religious movements spin off from older traditions. As the official Latter-day Saint culture pushed charismatic archaeologists—and their charismatic artifacts—to its margins, an array of Mormon revitalizers and splinter groups laid claim to them. Though repulsive to the gatekeepers of official culture, folk practitioners’ stories appealed to some rank-and-file Latter-day Saints who longed for a more literal and charismatic faith." [Author]
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