Mormon Women at the Crossroads : Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness / Caroline Kline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kline, Caroline (Caroline Esther), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint women--Religious life--Mexico.

Latter Day Saint women.

Latter Day Saint women--Religious life--Botswana.

Latter Day Saint women--Religious life--United States.

Race--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mexican women, agency, and liberation

African-born women navigating an American-born church

Privilege, complexity, and women of color in the United States

Toward a Mormon womanist theology of abundance

Appendix A : Oral life history interview questions for women in Mexico

Appendix B : Oral life history interview questions for women in Botswana

Appendix C : Oral life history interview questions for women in the United States

Appendix D : Demographic information.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252053351

0252053354

OCLC:

1293449323