Integrating Religious and Racial Identities: An Analysis of LDS African American Explanations of the Priesthood Ban
Significant numbers of blacks joined the LDS Church after the 1978 decision admitting black males into the priesthood. Using data from the LDS Afro-American Oral History Project at Brigham Young University, we examine 205 LDS African Americans' accounts of the historic priesthood ban. Their exp...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer
1995
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Review of religious research
Jahr: 1995, Band: 36, Heft: 3, Seiten: 295-311 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Significant numbers of blacks joined the LDS Church after the 1978 decision admitting black males into the priesthood. Using data from the LDS Afro-American Oral History Project at Brigham Young University, we examine 205 LDS African Americans' accounts of the historic priesthood ban. Their explanations fall into five categories on a continuum ranging from acceptance of traditional Mormon ideology at one end to a new ideology which reverses the culpability of whites and blacks at the other. Cognitive dissonance theory explains relationships between these accounts and self-integration. While positions at the ends of the continuum imply self-integration through the assertion of either a religious or racial identity, intermediate categories assume that an integrated self is negotiated through a more or less symmetrical balancing of religious and racial identities. Our conclusion discusses some implications for the Mormon Church. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511536 |