| Description |
1 online resource (284 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" -- Esotericism and the "coded word" in Mormonism : toward a new paradigm -- Kirtland through the Masonic looking glass -- The Book of Abraham and social perils of sophomore Hebrew -- Early Mormon racial theorising in a historical perspective -- Resistance, ritual, sex, and sedition -- The republicanisation of theocracy and Judaeo-Mormon synthesis -- Somewhere between white Christian, black Muslim, and Teutonic knight -- Mormonism's Rosicrucian journey -- Dawn of a brighter day? -- The eastern Smiths? |
| Summary |
Divine Rite of Kings: Land, Race, Same Sex, and Empire in Mormonism and the Esoteric Tradition is a social-historical-political analysis of the religion of the Latter-day Saints as deeply indebted to a variety of esoteric systems of belief. It argues that the present campaign against gay marriage and other homophobic policies of the "American religion," targeting the LGBTQ community, and, indeed, children of same-sex parents, are connected to erstwhile racial doctrines and practices, which excluded persons from full fellowship on the basis of race alone, Africans the supposed offspring of Cain |
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast |
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Latter Day Saint churches -- History
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Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches.
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Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought.
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Gay & Lesbian studies.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Mormon Church
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443889575 |
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1443889571 |
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