Religion of a Different Color
Author | : W. Paul Reeve |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199754076 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199754071 |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Religion of a Different Color by : W. Paul Reeve
Download or read book Religion of a Different Color written by W. Paul Reeve and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has consistently found itself on the wrong side of white. Mormon whiteness in the nineteenth century was a contested variable not an assumed fact. Religion of a Different Color traces Mormonism's racial trajectory from not white enough in the nineteenth century, to too white by the twenty-first.