Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion

This volume seeks nothing less than to shift the focus of Mormon studies from its historic North American, Euro—American “center” to the critical questions being raised by Mormons living at the movement’s cultural and geographic margins.

As a social institution, Mormonism is shaped around cultural notions, systems, and ideas that have currency in the United States but make less sense beyond the land of its genesis. Even as an avowedly international religion some 183 years out from its incep...