In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, Max Perry Mueller, author of Race and the Making of the Mormon People and an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses the history of racism within Mormonism’s policies and theology and how advocates can work toward racial justice within their religious communities. He also tells us about his Fundamentalist Christian/Episcopalian/Wiccan upbringing and why he recently decided to join a church with more conservative views than those he personally holds. You can find episode notes for the Religious Feminism Podcast here at the Exponent website: https://exponentii.org/tag/religious-feminism-podcast/
Links to Connect and Learn More:
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Hemings and Jefferson Together Forever? Troubling cases of Mormon “proxy sealing.”
History Lessons: Race and the LDS Church
What’s coming for religion in 2018?
Max’s blog (where he will be writing about his “Agnostic Christian” project throughout 2018): maxperrymueller.com
Max on Twitter: @maxperrymueller
Additional Resources Discussed in the Podcast:
The Trek Continues! by M. Russell Ballard, 2017
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve
If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress by Frederick Douglass, 1857
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)
Why did James Comey name his secret Twitter account ‘Reinhold Niebuhr’? Here’s what we know.
Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., 1963
Mormon women march for entry into priesthood
