The Mormon church and blacks :a documentary history /edited by Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst.
Description
Three Mormon scriptural works : providing a canonical framework for race, slavery, and the status of black people -- Joseph Smith and evolving Mormon attitudes and practices on slavery and race, 1830-1844 -- Brigham Young, the beginning black priesthood denial, and legalization of slavery in Utah, 1844-1877 -- Justifying and perpetuating black priesthood denial, 1877-1949 -- Church growth, confronting civil rights, and official affirmations of black priesthood denial, 1945-1970 -- The 1978 revelation and its implications -- Confronting the church's problematic racial past after 1978.
x, 217 pages ;24 cm
Book Details
Place Published
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Urbana
Publication Subjects
African American Mormons--History--Sources.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Mormon Church--History--Sources.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--Sources.
Priesthood--Mormon Church--History--Sources.
Priesthood--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--Sources.
African American Mormons.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00798984
Priesthood--Mormon Church.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01076263
Race relations--Religious aspects.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01086522