Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Latter-day Saints are only truly saved when they are saved together, as a “forever family.” Unlike most forms of Christianity (and much American mainstream thought), Mormonism is monistic; body and spirit are of one nature. Mormonism also reframes the temporality of kinship, since family relations in this life may reflect choices and connections from a premortal existence before birth on earth. As a result, conversion to Mormonism usually downplays the element of solitary Pauline “rupture” central to the analysis offered by Joel Robbins and others, emphasising instead conversion as the “grafting” of new families onto a sacred root.
Source: Springer eBooks
Author: Fenella Cannell
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2607126624