Race and the Making of the Mormon People by Max Perry Mueller (English) Paperbac

Description: Race and the Making of the Mormon People by Max Perry Mueller 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Gods 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. Author Biography Max Perry Mueller is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska. Review Unearths the buried stories of black Mormons such as Jane Manning James, who was close to Mormon founders like the (Joseph) Smith family.-- Martin Marty, Sightings Mueller becomes somewhat like one of the angels in Revelation, forcing us to compare ideals, history, and hopes against what the outside worlds paradigm would allow us to become.--Association for Mormon Letters Argues that Mormonism is a quintessentially American religion. . . . Yet, while the story of race and the LDS Church is similar to other American experiences of race, its also distinctive, leaving Mormons to grapple with the legacy of racism and white supremacy in their own way." --The Atlantic Argues that the Book of Mormon both reinforced and challenged nineteenth-century Americans ideas about race--and that it set the stage for how Mormonism would develop in the decades to come." --Jana Riess, Religion News Service A mature, meditative, and mighty engagement with a complex topic. Scholars of American religion and race, not to mention those engaged in the academic analysis of Mormonism, will be struggling with his conclusions for quite some time.--Benjamin Park, The Junto [Muellers] hermeneutic enterprise brings additional insight to a book rich in detail.---American Historical Review Unlike many other works of race and Mormonism, Mueller pushes beyond only understanding white Mormon identities. He explains Mormons sought to create a "distinctly white Mormon race" and then stresses nonwhite Mormon perspectives and experiences. He explores what "white" might mean to African American and Native American Mormons thereby (re) centering the focus of Mormon constructs of race on African Americans, Native Americans, and nonwhite Mormons who influenced the LDS Church and its community.--Farina King (Dine), author of The Earth Memory Compass: Dine Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century Muellers attention to the way that the racialized narrative of the Book of Mormon affected early Mormon assumptions about race is an important intervention.--Harvard Divinity School Bulletin Muellers account is both arresting and insightful. His understanding of Mormon scripture--particularly the Book of Mormon--is thorough and comprehensive. And his contextualization of Mormon racial teachings vis-a-vis broader currents in nineteenth-century America helps readers discern what was unique about Mormon racial teachings.--BYU Studies Quarterly If the scholarship surrounding the history of Mormonism were a target . . . Max Perry Muellers Race and the Making of the Mormon People strikes the center of that target with pinpoint accuracy.--Western Historical Quarterly "Max Perry Muellers highly anticipated book... [examines] race as a constitutive factor in the formation of Mormonism. Mueller takes on a wide range of questions about early Mormonism and race, but the answers to all of those questions resolve... to make clear a distinction between the ideologies and practices of race that defined the church for most of its history and the set of possibilities available in its founding texts.--Seth Perry, author of Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States Outstanding analysis of the role of race among Mormons.--Choice Muellers excellent book tells us that race is a story we collectively write about ourselves.--Association for Mormon Letters Mueller is to be praised for producing a richly argued and nuanced account of Mormon racial history. This provocative book deserves a careful reading from students and scholars of the Mormon past.--BYU Studies Quarterly Engages deeply with the text of the Book of Mormon.--Juvenile Instructor: A Mormon History Blog Ambitious . . . . Advances a thesis with which all future works on Mormonism and race will have to contend.--Nova Religio Successfully lays bare the problems with racism and conceptualizations of belonging that plague the history of Mormonism. Mueller complicates how race was initially imagined and later transformed. . . . An excellent analysis of conducting research on otherwise-neglected or underarchived communities.--Journal of American History Review Quote Unlike many other works of race and Mormonism, Mueller pushes beyond only understanding white Mormon identities. He explains Mormons sought to create a "distinctly white Mormon race" and then stresses nonwhite Mormon perspectives and experiences. He explores what "white" might mean to African American and Native American Mormons thereby (re) centering the focus of Mormon constructs of race on African Americans, Native Americans, and nonwhite Mormons who influenced the LDS Church and its community."--Farina King (Dine), author of The Earth Memory Compass: Dine Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century Details ISBN1469636166 Author Max Perry Mueller Pages 352 Publisher The University of North Carolina Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 1469636166 ISBN-13 9781469636160 Format Paperback Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Place of Publication Chapel Hill Country of Publication United States DEWEY 289.3089 Media Book Language English Publication Date 2017-09-11 AU Release Date 2017-09-11 NZ Release Date 2017-09-11 US Release Date 2017-09-11 UK Release Date 2017-09-11 Illustrations 17 halftones We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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