"All Abraham's Children" is Armand L. Mauss's long-awaited magnum opus on the evolution of traditional Mormon beliefs and practices concerning minorities. He examines how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have defined themselves and others in terms of racial lineages. Mauss describes a complex process of the broadening of these self-defined lineages during the last part of the twentieth century as the modern Mormon church continued its world-wide expansion through massive missionary work. Mauss contends that Mormon constructions of racial identity have not necessarily affected actual behavior negatively and that in some cases Mormons have shown greater tolerance than other groups in the American mainstream. Employing a broad intellectual historical analysis to identify shifts in LDS behavior over time, "All Abraham's Children" is an important commentary on current models of Mormon historiography.
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ADVANCE PRAISE "All Abraham's Children affords a highly engrossing and superbly researched account of changing Mormon relations with minorities from the time of the religion's founding to the present. I expect it to become a classic." -- Charles Y. Glock, coauthor of Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism and The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes "This exceptionally well-articulated book is an important work on Mormon race relations and a significant statement of Mormon intellectual and cultural history." -- Ronald W. Walker, author of Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young and coauthor of Mormon History
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And he's not talking about how Mormon conceptions go down in Africa, but in America, the land of our religion's birth. This is an excellent book, thought-provoking yet fair. If you want to get a better grasp of the history of race and lineage within Mormonism from it's beginnings up to the present, this book is the one to order.
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Misconceptions clearly didn't read the whole book. Or else he simply didn't understand it. Mauss masterfully discusses the LDS church's decision to extend the priesthood to black men in 1978. Thorough and expertly researched, this is THE definitve treatment of race in the LDS church.
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This book is an excellent, if under-appreciated, contribution to the field of Mormon studies. This under-appreciation may, in part, be due to elements of Mauss's sociological presentation. The book includes some complex tables and statistics in the course of its argumentation. These generally trace attitudes amongst Mormons toward various races and cultures. But the larger project of the book--following the development of LDS beliefs about lineages as they played out alongside the LDS Church's missionary enterprise--can be easily grasped by any non-specialist. The puzzling position the LDS took in regards to withholding the priesthood from blacks is contextualized alongside Mormon relations with American Indians, Jews, and other peoples. This analysis sheds light on the ways cultural assumptions come to inform religious belief and practice and vice versa. Highly recommended.
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A VERY INFORMATIVE ANALYSIS OF LDS ATTITUDES AND HISTORY
Armand Lind Mauss (born 1928) is an American sociologist (professor emeritus at Washington State University) specializing in the sociology of religion, as well as a Latter-day... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Steven H. Propp
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a thoughtful blend of Intellictual and Practical
Mauss' book is a treasure for thinking LDS and any others who seek knowledge and understanding. while the LDS hierarchy might never disown the racism of leaders (BY, others), books... Read more
Published on August 10, 2005 by Anders Tronsen
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