By Max Perry Mueller
The publication of Mormon awarded its believers with a thorough worldview, proclaiming that every one schisms in the human relations have been anathematic to God's layout. That acknowledged, church founders weren't racial egalitarians. They promoted whiteness as an aspirational racial identification that nonwhites might in attaining via conversion to Mormonism. Mueller additionally exhibits how, on a broader point, scripture and background might turn into together constituted. For the Mormons, that strategy formed a non secular circulate in perpetual pressure among its racialist and universalist impulses in the course of an period earlier than the idea that of race used to be secularized.
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