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Imperial Zions [electronic resource] : Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Pacific Worlds SerPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022.Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1496233794
  • 9781496233790
  • 9781496233806
  • 1496233808
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperial ZionsDDC classification:
  • 248.4/89332 23/eng/20220224
LOC classification:
  • BX8643.F3 H445 2022
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • HIS036040 | REL033000
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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.
Summary: Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith's attempts to spread its gospel as a ""civilizing"" force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.

Description based upon print version of record.

Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith's attempts to spread its gospel as a ""civilizing"" force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.

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.

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