Item Detail
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33255
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8
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English
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Racial Innocence and the Christus-Based Latter-day Saints Symbol
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2023
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56
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4
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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63-81
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This article examines the racial implications of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' adoption of the Thorvaldsen Christus statue as their logo and official symbol. It discusses the way the Christus symbol and the approved foyer art for meetinghouses confirm the Church's bias-- intentional or not-- for a white Jesus.
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A Balm in Gilead : Reconciling Black Bodies within a Mormon Imagination
Mormonism and White Supremacy : American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Tabernacles of Clay : Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
The Possessive Investment in Rightness : White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement
"There Is No Equality": William E. Berrett, BYU, and Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter-day Saint Past and Present