The Mormon Church And Blacks
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The Mormon Church And Blacks
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Author : Matthew L Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2015-11-15
The Mormon Church And Blacks written by Matthew L Harris and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Religion categories.
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.
Saints Slaves And Blacks
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Author : Newell G. Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Saints Slaves And Blacks written by Newell G. Bringhurst and has been published by Greg Kofford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Religion categories.
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
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Author : Matthew L Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2015-11-04
The Mormon Church And Blacks written by Matthew L Harris and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with Religion categories.
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.
Black And Mormon
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Author : Newell G. Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Black And Mormon written by Newell G. Bringhurst and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Religion categories.
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
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Author : Newell G. Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
Release Date : 2018
Saints Slaves And Blacks written by Newell G. Bringhurst and has been published by Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Examines Mormonism in the context of American attitudes towards slavery and race, and the racial traditions it maintained for over a century. While Mormons may have drawn from a distinct theology to support racial views, their attitudes towards blacks were deeply-embedded in the national debates over slavery and anticipation of the last days.
Mormonism And White Supremacy
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Author : Joanna Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-01
Mormonism And White Supremacy written by Joanna Brooks and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with Religion categories.
To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a "curse" of black skin. This claim can be made in many Mormon Sunday Schools without fear of contradiction. You are more likely to encounter opposition if you argue that the ban on the ordination of Black Mormons was a product of human racism. Like most difficult subjects in Mormon history and practice, says Joanna Brooks, the priesthood and temple ban on Blacks has been managed carefully in LDS institutional settings with a combination of avoidance, denial, selective truth-telling, and determined silence. As America begins to come to terms with the costs of white privilege to Black lives, this book urges a soul-searching examination of the role American Christianity has played in sustaining everyday white supremacy by assuring white people of their innocence. In Mormonism and White Supremacy, Joanna Brooks offers an unflinching look at her own people's history and culture and finds in them lessons that will hit home for every scholar of American religion and person of faith.
Blacks And The Mormon Priesthood
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Author : Marcus Helvécio Martins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-08
Blacks And The Mormon Priesthood written by Marcus Helvécio Martins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with Black people categories.
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.
Black Saints In A White Church
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Author : Jessie L. Embry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Black Saints In A White Church written by Jessie L. Embry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Religion categories.
Until very recently, black Latter-day Saints were excluded from priesthood office in the church. In this revealing study, Embry culls answers from both oral history interviews and mailed surveys to determine how the age-old stereotypes and differences are disappearing as African-Americans are being assimilated into the church.
Neither White Nor Black
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Author : Lester E. Bush
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Neither White Nor Black written by Lester E. Bush and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with African American Mormons categories.
Religion Of A Different Color
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Author : W. Paul Reeve
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Religion Of A Different Color written by W. Paul Reeve and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
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.