{"product_id":"imperial-zions-religion-race-and-family-in-the-american-west-and-the-pacific-hardback-9781496214607","title":"Imperial Zions; Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific (Hardback) 9781496214607","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmanda Hendrix-Komoto (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496214607\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 7 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.542 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"By examining how the ideals of faith met lived reality, Hendrix-Komoto offers fruitful ground for reflection and a solid, path-breaking base for future scholarship.\"-Jessica Lauren Nelson, \u003ci\u003eMormon Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e is an admirable and ambitious project.\"-Carleigh Beriont, \u003ci\u003eMontana: The Magazine of Western History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e] breaks new ground in centering Indian and Hawaiian perspectives in the interconnected stories of Mormonism, the American West, and evolving discourses of the American family.\"-Tona Hangen, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e] should command a readership within and beyond Mormon historians. Historians of nineteenth-century race, religion, and sexuality will all find this to be an important book that helps us center Latter-day Saint missionary efforts in the history of American settler colonialism.\"-Emily Conroy-Krutz, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Mormon History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Hendrix-Komoto has written a book that takes belief and practice seriously, and not just for those in power. She shows how those on the margins of society used belief to advocate for themselves and to maintain their long-standing cultural identities.\"-Nathaniel Wiewora, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e, Amanda Hendrix-Komoto adds to a burgeoning scholarship that locates Latter-day Saints as very much a part of the history of empire-building in the American West and across the Pacific world.\"-Tisa Wenger, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to ongoing efforts to center Native cultures, stories, experiences, and perspectives as we seek to further understand the complexities of early Latter-day Saint history and culture.\"-Sam Mitchell, \u003ci\u003eDawning of a Brighter Day\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e is a signal contribution to the history of the Latter-day Saints. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto brings modern scholarly concepts of empire and colonialism to bear in a thoughtful, insightful way. Her intertwined analyses of Native American and Pacific Islander Latter-day Saints represent a crucial advance in the field.”-Quincy D. Newell, author of \u003ci\u003eYour Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation, encouraging white women to participate in an institution that many people associated with the streets of Calcutta or Turkish palaces. At the same time, Latter-day Saints participated in American settler colonialism. After their expulsion from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, Latter-day Saints dispossessed Ute and Shoshone communities in an attempt to build their American Zion. Their missionary work abroad also helped to solidify American influence in the Pacific Islands as the church became a participant in American expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology with the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force in the American West and the Pacific. By highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and the nature of colonialism, \u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Latter-day Saints created their understandings of polygamy at the same time they tried to change the domestic practices of Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto tracks the work of missionaries as they moved through different imperial spaces to analyze the experiences of the American Indians and Native Hawaiians who became a part of white Latter-day Saint families. \u003ci\u003eImperial Zions\u003c\/i\u003e is a foundational contribution that places Latter-day Saint discourses about race and peoplehood in the context of its ideas about sexuality, gender, and the family.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Race and Sex of God\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Bonds between Sisters\u003cbr\u003e 3. Redeeming the Lamanites in Native America and the Pacific\u003cbr\u003e 4. Creating Polygamous Domesticities\u003cbr\u003e 5. Making Native Kin\u003cbr\u003e 6. Native Zions\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599897751832,"sku":"9781496214607","price":78.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imperial-zions-religion-race-and-family-in-the-american-west-and-the-pacific-hardback-9781496214607","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}