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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Udgivet i:Religious Materials: Emic Perspectives - Etic Constructions - Museum Classifications. REDIM Conference 2021
Hovedforfatter: Hazard, Sonia (Prof. Dr.)
Andre forfattere: Franke, Edith (Prof. Dr.) (Hrsg), Jelinek-Menke, Ramona (Dr.) (Hrsg)
Format: Vortrag
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2021
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