Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

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Produktbeschreibung

Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Pacific Worlds
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233462
• ISBN-10: 1496233468
• Artikelnr.: 63332423

Autorenporträt

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is an assistant professor of history at Montana State University.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
Introduction
1. The Race and Sex of God
2. The Bonds between Sisters
3. Redeeming the Lamanites in Native America and the Pacific
4. Creating Polygamous Domesticities
5. Making Native Kin
6. Native Zions
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index