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“If You Could Hie to Kolob”: Mormonism and the World Religions Discourse

Wiles-Op, Lee E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274819380

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2010, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
This essay examines the ways in which the status of Mormonism within academic comparative religion discourses is quite different from that which has evolved among Latter-day Saint leaders and within the burgeoning field of Mormon studies. Whereas Mormonism is a quasi-Christian New Religious Movement in most world religions textbooks and reference works, some scholars of Mormonism have advanced the expanding Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into the position of world religion. In doing so, they have adopted the terminology of a broader taxonomy largely without regard for maintaining its established demarcations. This classificatory tension, which will likely increase in the future, reveals some of the underlying logics, semantic confusions, and power dynamics of comparative religion discourses, ultimately problematizing the categories of Christianity, world religion, and New Religious Movement as currently constituted.
Hugh Urban (Committee Chair)
Tanya Erzen (Committee Member)
Daniel Reff (Committee Member)
Religion; Religious History

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  • Wiles-Op, L. E. (2010). “If You Could Hie to Kolob”: Mormonism and the World Religions Discourse [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274819380

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wiles-Op, Lee. “If You Could Hie to Kolob”: Mormonism and the World Religions Discourse. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274819380.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wiles-Op, Lee. "“If You Could Hie to Kolob”: Mormonism and the World Religions Discourse." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274819380

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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