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The Racialization of Lineage The Racialization of Lineage
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Lineage and The Book of Mormon Lineage and The Book of Mormon
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Mormon Theology and the Israelite Connection Mormon Theology and the Israelite Connection
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The Premortal Family, the Hierarchy of Lineage, and Racial Exclusion The Premortal Family, the Hierarchy of Lineage, and Racial Exclusion
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Polynesian Lineage and the LDS Family Tree Polynesian Lineage and the LDS Family Tree
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Consolidating the Polynesian–Israelite Connection Consolidating the Polynesian–Israelite Connection
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Racism and the LDS Church Today Racism and the LDS Church Today
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Conclusion Conclusion
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1 Mormonism, Race, and Lineage: The Making of a Chosen People
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Published:February 2012
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This chapter provides a historical background on how in the nineteenth-century Hawaiians came to be incorporated into the larger cosmology of the Mormon Church through notions of lineage. In the 1850s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, drawing upon dominant notions of race and worthiness, began to redraw the boundaries between those souls they deemed chosen and those who were not. Hawaiians were positioned as chosen peoples connected to Israelite lineage and thus were desirable religious subjects. The chapter examines the development of a chosen people against a backdrop of the racialized logic of the 1850s. It considers three mechanisms for the making of a chosen people: racial discourses, ideologies of lineage, and invention of religious customs and practices.
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