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Decolonizing Mormonism : approaching a postcolonial Zion / edited by Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks.

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]

vi, 323 pages ; 23 cm

"This volume seeks nothing less than to shift the focus of Mormon studies from its historic North American, Euro-American 'center' to the critical questions being raised by Mormons living at the movement's cultural and geographic margins ... [It] brings together the work of 15 scholars from around the globe who ... reflect on global Mormon experiences and American-Mormon cultural imperialism. Indigenous, minority, and Global South Mormons ask in unison: what is the relationship between Mormonism and imperialism and where must the Mormon movement go in order to achieve its long-cherished dream of equality for all in Zion?"--Provided by publisher.

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

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

Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches

Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines.

Church and minorities.

Colvin, Gina, editor.

Brooks, Joanna, 1971- editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.

Approaching a postcolonial Zion / Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks -- A Maori Mormon testimony / Gina Colvin -- Decolonization on the Salish Sea : a tribal journey back to Mormon studies / Thomas Murphy -- Porter Rockwell and Samuel the Lamanite fistfight in heaven : a Mormon Navajo filmmaker's perspective / Angelo Baca -- "This is the place!" : disrupting Mormon settler colonialism / Elise Boxer -- Unpacking white-heritage Mormon privilege : a Latter-Day Saint pursuit of critical consciousness / Rolf Straubhaar -- An abundant God knows the middle also / Alicia Harris -- What I learned at girls camp, or Developing a racial identity leads to liberation / Mica McGriggs -- Empowering Latino saints to transcend historical racialism : a bishop's tale / Ignacio Garcia -- Mormonism as colonialism, Mormonism as anti-colonialism, Mormonism as minor transnationalism : historical and contemporary perspectives / Joanna Brooks -- The LDS church in Flanders : their way, our way, or their way in our own way / Ingrid Sherlock -- Sister acts : relief society and flexible citizenship in Hong Kong / Stacilee Ford -- A tale of three primaries : the gravity of Mormonism's informal institutions / Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye.

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