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6578
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English
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Peace Initiative : Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and Ethnicity in American History
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 1995
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21
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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1-29
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This is the Tanner Lecture delivered at the 1994 MHA annual meeting. The author notes the propensity of historians to divide the world up into categories--Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Mormon, Muslim; male and female, heterosexual; Indian, Anglo American, African American, Mexican American, etc. They tend to isolate these categories and "sometimes draw the conclusion that no doors or openings connect them: men will never understand women's experiences; Anglo Americans will never understand Mexican American experiences," etc. Historians have "backed away from any vision of human common ground." She sees advantages in thinking about ethnicity in the U.S. by looking at Mormon ethnicity because it is not complicated by people with different skin colors. It is difficult to determine if Mormon ethnicity is disappearing or if it is persisting. She notes that assertions of both religious belief and ethnic identity "partake of much of the same mental, even spiritual, energy." When scholars write about ethnicity, they are exploring an area "close to the human soul" and need to proceed with care and respect of the people they are writing about. She finds common ground between Mormons and non-Mormons in their "distinctive and parallel searches for refuge" as the "changing patterns of Mormon ethnicity and the current struggles over Mormon identity simultaneously set Latter-day Saints apart and bind them to the rest of humanity."
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