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Description: Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, Paperback by Reeve, W. Paul, ISBN 019067413X, ISBN-13 9780190674137, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W. Paul Reeve explores
the ways in which nineteenth century Protestant white America made outsiders out of an inside religious group. Much of what has been written on Mormon otherness centers upon economic, cultural, doctrinal, marital, and political differences that set Mormons apart from mainstream America. Reeve
instead looks at how Protestants racialized Mormons, using physical differences in order to define Mormons as non-White to help justify their expulsion from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. He analyzes and contextualizes the rhetoric on Mormons as a race with period discussions of the Native American,
African American, Oriental, Turk/Islam, and European immigrant races. He also examines how Mormon male, female, and child bodies were characterized in these racialized debates. For instance, while Mormons argued that polygamy was ordained by God, and so created angelic, celestial, and elevated
offspring, their opponents suggested that the children were degenerate and deformed.

The Protestant white majority was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial-not merely religious-departure from the mainstream and spent considerable effort attempting to deny Mormon whiteness. Being white brought access to political, social, and economic power, all aspects of citizenship in
which outsiders sought to limit or prevent Mormon participation. At least a part of those efforts came through persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body, ways in which outsiders suggested that Mormons were physically different, racially more similar to marginalized groups than they were
white. Medical doctors went so far as to suggest that Mormon polygamy was spawning a new race. Mormons responded with aspirations toward whiteness. It was a back and forth struggle between what outsiders imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged triumphant, but not
unscathed. Mormon leaders moved away from universalistic ideals toward segregated priesthood and temples, policies firmly in place by the early twentieth century. So successful were Mormons at claiming whiteness for themselves that by the time Mormon Mitt Romney sought the White House in 2012, he
was labeled "the whitest white man to run for office in recent memory." Ending with reflections on ongoing views of the Mormon body, this groundbreaking book brings together literatures on religion, whiteness studies, and nineteenth century racial history with the history of politics and
migration.

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Book Title: Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for

Number of Pages: 352 Pages

Publication Name: Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Subject: Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), United States / 20th Century, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Christian Life / Social Issues

Publication Year: 2017

Item Height: 1 in

Item Weight: 18.4 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History

Item Length: 9.1 in

Author: W. Paul Reeve

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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