Race and the Making of the Mormon People, with Max Mueller [MIPodcast #85]
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This year marks forty years since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began, once again, to ordain black members of African descent to its priesthood. Forty years since the church began administering it sacred temple ordinances to black women and men. Over the past forty years the body of scholarship on race and the Church has expanded, with the biggest advances happening over the past ten years.

Max Perry Mueller’s book is one of the latest offerings. It’s called Race and the Making of the Mormon People (University of North Carolina Press).

About the Guest **Max Perry Mueller **is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska. He is author of Race and the Making of the Mormon People).

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