...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...

... the historical and spiritual relationships of Mormonism and Native Hawaiian self-determination have been imagined and how in turn they might be knotted and secured together. ‘aina Brigham Young University Hawai‘i kahua La’ie community mana Napela Jonathan H Jonatana Polynesian Cultural Center regeneration...

... Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (more commonly known as Mormons) understand and negotiate their place in this quintessentially American religion. Mormon missionaries arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1850, a mere twenty years after Joseph Smith founded the Church. This book traces...

...This introductory chapter presents the author’s account of her journey while researching the present volume along with an overview of its main themes. The book explores how Mormon theology came to be fused with Polynesian lineage. The author asks how Polynesians, in general, and her family...

...In 1865 the Mormon Church purchased 6000 acres of the Lāʻie ahupuaʻa to provide Hawaiian Latter-day Saints with a gathering place in Hawaiʻi where they could live among coreligionists. It also became a site where many Native Hawaiians could revive their cultural relationship to the land and the sea...

... Wineera Vernice Promised Land Benioni Patoa Appadurai Arjun Institute for Polynesian Studies culturalism Cornell Stephen Hartmann Douglas skin color blood Kamai Ezekial Oceania Poulson Noe Barney Ralph Poire Napua Stevens Taurima Tommy ‘aina Cameron Elliot dispossession inactive Mormon...

...This chapter presents the author’s account of the lessons she learned during the course of researching and writing this volume. Despite her continued ambivalent relationship with the Mormon Church, she learned that many Polynesian Latter-day Saints have creative and inspiring relationships...

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