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Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood

Author : Marcus Helvécio Martins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Black people
ISBN : 1932597417

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Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood by Marcus Helvécio Martins Pdf

For over a century The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibited the ordination of men who had Black African ancestry to offices in its priesthood. This priesthood ban was lifted in 1978 to the delight of most Church members, but puzzling questions and folklore surrounding the origin and reasons for the ban have lingered in Mormon popular culture.

The Mormon Church and Blacks

Author : Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252039742

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The Mormon Church and Blacks by Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst Pdf

The year 1978 marked a watershed year in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it lifted a 126-year ban on ordaining black males for the priesthood. This departure from past practice focused new attention on Brigham Young's decision to abandon Joseph Smith's more inclusive original teachings. The Mormon Church and Blacks presents thirty official or authoritative Church statements on the status of African Americans in the Mormon Church. Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst comment on the individual documents, analyzing how they reflected uniquely Mormon characteristics and contextualizing each within the larger scope of the history of race and religion in the United States. Their analyses consider how lifting the ban shifted the status of African Americans within Mormonism, including the fact that African Americans, once denied access to certain temple rituals considered essential for Mormon salvation, could finally be considered full-fledged Latter-day Saints in both this world and the next. Throughout, Harris and Bringhurst offer an informed view of behind-the-scenes Church politicking before and after the ban. The result is an essential resource for experts and laymen alike on a much-misunderstood aspect of Mormon history and belief.

Religion of a Different Color

Author : W. Paul Reeve
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199754076

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Religion of a Different Color by W. Paul Reeve Pdf

In this study of Mormonism and its relationship with Protestant white America in the nineteenth century, historian W. Paul Reeve examines the way in which Protestants racialized Mormons by using physical differences to define Mormons as non-white in order to justify the expulsion of Mormons from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and, in general, to deny Mormon whiteness and thereby exclude the new religious group from access to political, social, and economic power.--Adapted from publisher description.

No More the Canaanite

Author : Robert L. Stevenson
Publisher : More Light Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780996880510

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No More the Canaanite by Robert L. Stevenson Pdf

I wrote this book to bring some much needed light and a new perspective to the many misconceived, searching and unanswered questions, myths and speculations that are still aloft pertaining to why the modern day descendants of Canaan were denied the rights of the Priesthood. This book provides those answers and explanations using the same historical and socially limiting factors that not only shaped the Mormon Church and its policies and practices during the mid-eighteen hundreds, but also those factors that shaped and dictated religious and social interactions between Negroes and Whites in American up to and beyond the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-nineteen hundreds. This book effectively dissects, exposes, explains and corrects most if not all of the misconceptions, speculations, misinterpreted scriptures, myths and shrouding that made the ban on Negroes receiving the priesthood scripturally justified, spiritually acceptable and socially tolerable, without question, for so long. This book is not the official answer or explanation of why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1852 deemed it necessary to ban Negroes from the priesthood. It is also not intended, in any way, to criticize the church or the need for the ban as it is outlined in “Race and the Priesthood”. In fact, the bottom line conclusion of this book is that the ban on Negroes receiving the priesthood in 1852 had to be put in place to make it possible for the newly restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to survive and thrive in the racially divided environment that existed in America at that time.

Black and Mormon

Author : Newell G. Bringhurst,Darron T. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252090608

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Black and Mormon by Newell G. Bringhurst,Darron T. Smith Pdf

The year 2003 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the lifting of the ban excluding black members from the priesthood of the Mormon church. The articles collected in Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith's Black and Mormon look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation, the motives behind the ban, and the kind of changes that have--and have not--taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end. This challenging collection is required reading for anyone concerned with the history of racism, discrimination, and the Latter-day Saints.

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks

Author : Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Saints, Slaves, and Blacks by Newell G. Bringhurst Pdf

Originally published shortly after the LDS Church lifted its priesthood and temple restriction on black Latter-day Saints, Newell G. Bringhurst’s landmark work remains ever-relevant as both the first comprehensive study on race within the Mormon religion and the basis by which contemporary discussions on race and Mormonism have since been framed. Approaching the topic from a social history perspective, with a keen understanding of antebellum and post-bellum religious shifts, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks examines both early Mormonism in the context of early American attitudes towards slavery and race, and the inherited racial traditions it maintained for over a century. While Mormons may have drawn from a distinct theology to support and defend racial views, their attitudes towards blacks were deeply-embedded in the national contestation over slavery and anticipation of the last days. This second edition of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks offers an updated edit, as well as an additional foreword and postscripts by Edward J. Blum, W. Paul Reeve, and Darron T. Smith. Bringhurst further adds a new preface and appendix detailing his experience publishing Saints, Slaves, and Blacks at a time when many Mormons felt the rescinded ban was best left ignored, and reflecting on the wealth of research done on this topic since its publication.

The Mormon Church and Blacks

Author : Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252097843

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The Mormon Church and Blacks by Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst Pdf

The year 1978 marked a watershed year in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it lifted a 126-year ban on ordaining black males for the priesthood. This departure from past practice focused new attention on Brigham Young's decision to abandon Joseph Smith's more inclusive original teachings. The Mormon Church and Blacks presents thirty official or authoritative Church statements on the status of African Americans in the Mormon Church. Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst comment on the individual documents, analyzing how they reflected uniquely Mormon characteristics and contextualizing each within the larger scope of the history of race and religion in the United States. Their analyses consider how lifting the ban shifted the status of African Americans within Mormonism, including the fact that African Americans, once denied access to certain temple rituals considered essential for Mormon salvation, could finally be considered full-fledged Latter-day Saints in both this world and the next. Throughout, Harris and Bringhurst offer an informed view of behind-the-scenes Church politicking before and after the ban. The result is an essential resource for experts and laymen alike on a much-misunderstood aspect of Mormon history and belief.

Mormonism and White Supremacy

Author : Joanna Brooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190081768

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Mormonism and White Supremacy by Joanna Brooks Pdf

"This book examines the role of white American Christianity in fostering and sustaining white supremacy. It draws from theology, critical race theory, and American religious history to make the argument that predominantly white Christian denominations have served as a venue for establishing white privilege and have conveyed to white believers a sense of moral innoeence without requiring moral reckoning with the costs of anti-Black racism. To demonstrate these arguments, Brooks draws from Mormon history from the 1830s to the present, from an archive that includes speeches, historical documents, theological treatises, Sunday School curricula, and other documents of religious life"--

Revelations in Context [Portuguese]

Author : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1629726338

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David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

Author : Gregory A. Prince,William Robert Wright
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874808223

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David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince,William Robert Wright Pdf

Focuses primarily on the years of McKay's presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during some of the most turbulent times in American and world history.

Race and the Making of the Mormon People

Author : Max Perry Mueller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469633763

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Race and the Making of the Mormon People by Max Perry Mueller Pdf

The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three "original" American races—red, black, and white—for Mormons and others in the early American Republic. Recovering the voices of a handful of black and Native American Mormons who resolutely wrote themselves into the Mormon archive, Mueller threads together historical experience and Mormon scriptural interpretations. He finds that the Book of Mormon is key to understanding how early followers reflected but also departed from antebellum conceptions of race as biblically and biologically predetermined. Mormon theology and policy both challenged and reaffirmed the essentialist nature of the racialized American experience. The Book of Mormon presented its believers with a radical worldview, proclaiming that all schisms within the human family were anathematic to God's design. That said, church founders were not racial egalitarians. They promoted whiteness as an aspirational racial identity that nonwhites could achieve through conversion to Mormonism. Mueller also shows how, on a broader level, scripture and history may become mutually constituted. For the Mormons, that process shaped a religious movement in perpetual tension between its racialist and universalist impulses during an era before the concept of race was secularized.

For the Cause of Righteousness

Author : Russell W. Stevenson
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589585291

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This book broaches one of the most sensitive topics in the history of Mormonism: the story of the LDS community's turbulent relationship with the black population. For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013 promises to tell a story of how an American religious community could wander through the rocky landscape of American racial politics, all while hoping to hold onto its institutional integrity in the face of attacks from both within and without. Drawing on a rich array of archival documents and oral testimonies, For the Cause of Righteousness suggests that understanding race and Mormonism requires far more than watching the movements of well-dressed men on North Temple; it calls for understanding the dynamics of global Mormon communities ranging from Mowbray to Accra, from Berkeley to Rio Di Janeiro. But as any historian will say, primary sources matter. Thus, For the Cause of Righteousness offers up not only a narrative history of the global black Mormon community but also an anthology of primary source transcripts: letters, newspaper articles, and speech transcripts, all in hopes that readers might take one more step toward understanding a story that simultaneously inspires, troubles, and urges Latter-day Saints into understanding a provincial religion that has reached global proportions.

Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley

Author : Gordon Bitner Hinckley
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1573452629

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Noah's Curse

Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199881697

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Noah's Curse by Stephen R. Haynes Pdf

"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters.

Mormonism and the Negro

Author : John J. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : African American Latter Day Saints
ISBN : WISC:89067428300

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Mormonism and the Negro by John J. Stewart Pdf