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Format:

Book

Author:

Hendrix-Komoto, Amanda, author.

Title:

Imperial Zions : religion, race, and family in the American West and the Pacific / Amanda Hendrix-Komoto.

Publisher, Date:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]

Description:

xviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

"Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Mormon theology with the faith's attempts to spread its gospel as a "civilizing" force in the American West and the Pacific to highlight the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and the nature of colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Studies in Pacific worlds

Studies in Pacific worlds.

Subjects:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines.

Families -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Race -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Families -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches

Race -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches

Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches

Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.

Contents:

The race and sex of God -- The bonds between sisters : early Latter-day Saint ideas about the family -- Redeeming the Lamanites in Native America and the Pacific -- Creating polygamous domesticities -- Making kin : Latter-day Saints and the politics of interracial intimacy -- Native Zions.

LCCN:

2022005486

ISBN:

9781496214607

9781496233462

Other Number:

1292971776

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1005416

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

289.3 Hendrix