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A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i

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Description for A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.

Christianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many indigenous people embrace Christian faith as part of their cultural and ethnic identities. A Chosen People, a Promised Land gets to the heart of this contradiction by exploring how Native 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 Hawai‘i in 1850, a mere twenty years after Joseph Smith founded the church. Hokulani K. Aikau traces how Native Hawaiians became integrated into the ... Read more

Using the words of Native Hawaiian Latter-Day Saints to illuminate the intersections of race, colonization, and religion, A Chosen People, a Promised Land examines Polynesian Mormon articulations of faith and identity within a larger political context of self-determination.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816674626
SKU
V9780816674626
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About Hokulani K. Aikau
Hokulani K. Aikau is associate professor of indigenous and Native Hawaiian politics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is coeditor of Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy (Minnesota, 2007).

Reviews for A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
"A Chosen People, a Promised Land is a fascinating book. Attending to fraught and revealing episodes in Hawaiian-Mormon history, Hokulani K. Aikau opens up new terrain for historical analysis in a manner that is theoretically engaged yet accessible."—Greg Johnson, author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition "More than finding an eager audience, this pathbreaking book will add convincingly ... Read more

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