{"id":32717,"date":"2015-02-16T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=32717"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:05:15","slug":"religion-of-a-different-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/religion-of-a-different-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion of a Different Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/9780199754076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32780\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/9780199754076.jpg\" alt=\"9780199754076\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to do a real review of this book because I&#8217;m swamped (if you want a brief summary of the book&#8217;s thesis, read <a href=\"http:\/\/bycommonconsent.com\/2015\/02\/14\/review-religion-of-a-different-color\/#comment-347609\">this<\/a>); this is just a brief note that if you have the slightest interest in Mormonism, you are going to want to read this. It&#8217;s\u00a0<em>phenomenal.<\/em>\u00a0It&#8217;s a total game-changer in terms of thinking about Mormonism, race, and outsider perceptions of Mormonism. The history is fascinating, the analysis is trenchant, the message about race is provocative. I think we&#8217;ll need to re-examine some of what we thought we knew about Mormon history and theology in the wake of this book.<\/p>\n<p>So: move this to the top of your to-read pile.<\/p>\n<p><em>Review copy provided by publisher.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/9780199754076.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32783,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717\/revisions\/32783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}