"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"--
Book Details
Author
Mueller, Max Perry
Place Published
City
Chapel Hill
Date Published
2017
Publication Subjects
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History.
Book of Mormon.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Book of Mormon. fast (OCoLC)fst01356050
Race -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church.
Mormon Church -- History.
Race -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church.
Mormon Church -- Membership.
Mormons -- West (U.S.)
Mormon Church.
Mormon Church -- Membership.
Mormons.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church.
West United States.
Call No.
BX8611 .M77 2017
ISBN
9781469633756 1469633752 9781469636160 1469636166
Notes
xii, 333 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-317) and index.
