RT Book
T1 Race and the making of the Mormon people
A1 Mueller, Max Perry
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB The University of North Carolina Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/882656945
AB "Max Perry Mueller argues that the nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints illuminates the role that religion played in the formation of the notion of the three 'original' American races--'red,' 'black,' and 'white'--for both Mormons and others in the Intermountain West. Notably recovering the voices of a handful of black and Native American Mormons who persistently wrote themselves into the Mormon archive, Mueller threads together historical experience and scriptural hermeneutics, finding that the Book of Mormon is key to understanding how early Mormons both departed from and reflected antebellum conceptions of race as biblically and biologically predetermined. Mormon thought both challenged and reaffirmed the essentialist nature of the racialized American experience"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BX8611
SN 9781469636160
SN 9781469633756
K1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : History
K1 Book of Mormon
K1 Mormon Church : History
K1 Race : Religious aspects : Mormon Church
K1 Race Relations : Religious aspects : Mormon Church
K1 Mormon Church : Membership
K1 Mormons : West (U.S.)