Forever Familias: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Mormonism

by Jason Palmer

Peruvian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints face the dilemma of embracing their faith while finding space to nourish their Peruvianness. Jason Palmer draws on eight years of fieldwork to provide an on-the-ground look at the relationship between Peruvian Saints and the racial and gender complexities of the contemporary Church.

Peruvian Saints discovered that the foundational ideas of kinship and religion ceased being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208795X
• ISBN13: 9780252087950
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 344 Pages