For the Cause of Righteousness : A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013

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Label

For the Cause of Righteousness : A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013

Title remainder

A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013

Statement of responsibility

Russell W. Stevenson

Creator

• Stevenson, Russell W

Author

• Stevenson, Russell W

Subject

• African American Mormons
• Black people
• Mormons
• Race relations -- Religious aspects | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Language

eng

Summary

This book broaches one of the most sensitive topics in the history of Mormonism: the story of the LDS community's turbulent relationship with the black population. For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013 promises to tell a story of how an American religious community could wander through the rocky landscape of American racial politics, all while hoping to hold onto its institutional integrity in the face of attacks from both within and without. Drawing on a rich array of archival documents and oral testimonies, For the Cause of Righteousness suggests that understanding race and Mormonism requires far more than watching the movements of well-dressed men on North Temple; it calls for understanding the dynamics of global Mormon communities ranging from Mowbray to Accra, from Berkeley to Rio Di Janeiro. But as any historian will say, primary sources matter. Thus, For the Cause of Righteousness offers up not only a narrative history of the global black Mormon community but also an anthology of primary source transcripts: letters, newspaper articles, and speech transcripts, all in hopes that readers might take one more step toward understanding a story that simultaneously inspires, troubles, and urges Latter-day Saints into understanding a provincial religion that has reached global proportions

Cataloging source

DWP

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography