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Decolonizing Mormonism - Approaching a Postcolonial Zion (Paperback)
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Decolonizing Mormonism - Approaching a Postcolonial Zion (Paperback)
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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. As a social
institution, Mormonism is shaped around cultural notions, systems,
and ideas that have currency in the United States but make less
sense beyond the land of its genesis. Even as an avowedly
international religion some 183 years out from its inception, it
makes few allowances for diverse international contexts, with Salt
Lake City prescribing programs, policies, curricula, leadership,
and edicts for the church's international regions. While
Mormonism's greatest strength is its organizational coherence,
there is also a cost paid, for those at the church's peripheries.
Decolonizing Mormonism brings together the work of 15 scholars from
around the globe who critically 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? Their stories are both heartbreaking and
heartening and provide a rich resource for thinking about the
future of Mormon missiology and the possibilities inherent in the
work of Mormon contextual theology.
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