The Case of the “Gold Plates”: How Ordinary Material Objects Sparked a Religious Revolution.
Did Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, really find “gold plates”? In this talk, I will reconsider the question of the plates—the enigmatic material artifacts at the center of America’s most famous homegrown religion—using methods inspired by new materialism and actor-network theory. The answer...
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Published in: | Religious Materials: Emic Perspectives - Etic Constructions - Museum Classifications. REDIM Conference 2021 |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2021
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