Mormonism's First Bad Girl
Lucy Harris and the Gendering of Faith and Doubt in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517631 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Quincy D Newell (corresponding author), Sara M Patterson |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 405-434 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rac.2023.3 |
| OpenAlex | W4365147149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Why has Lucy Harris been blamed for the loss of 116 pages of the Book of Mormon manuscript? Analysis of storytelling about Lucy Harris, Mormonism's first "bad girl," allows us to see the creation of one element of the Latter-day Saint chain of memory. Through the accretion of stories about Lucy Harris, church members came to code doubt as feminine in Mormon memory while viewing the concept of witness as masculine. These understandings of the relationship between gender and religious faith are embedded understandings in the Latter-day Saint chain of memory. Preserving the memory and reputation of Martin Harris, Lucy's husband, scribe for the Book of Mormon, and one of its three witnesses, allowed Latter-day Saints to cement the intersections of masculinity, priesthood, and witness. Church members used stories about Lucy Harris to teach, discipline, and perform gender norms for future generations of Mormons
Art · Art history · Faith · Girl · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · SAINT · Sociology · Storytelling · Theology · Witness · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |