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Mormon women at the crossroads : global narratives and the power of connectedness / Caroline Kline.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0252053354
  • 9780252053351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mormon women at the crossroadsDDC classification:
  • 289.3/32082 23/eng/20220119
LOC classification:
  • BX8643.W66 K55 2022
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Mexican women, agency, and liberation -- African-born women navigating an American-born church -- Privilege, complexity, and women of color in the United States -- Toward a Mormon womanist theology of abundance -- Appendix A : Oral life history interview questions for women in Mexico -- Appendix B : Oral life history interview questions for women in Botswana -- Appendix C : Oral life history interview questions for women in the United States -- Appendix D : Demographic information.
Summary: "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3296838

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mexican women, agency, and liberation -- African-born women navigating an American-born church -- Privilege, complexity, and women of color in the United States -- Toward a Mormon womanist theology of abundance -- Appendix A : Oral life history interview questions for women in Mexico -- Appendix B : Oral life history interview questions for women in Botswana -- Appendix C : Oral life history interview questions for women in the United States -- Appendix D : Demographic information.

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2022).