tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post4373963376178442355..comments2024-01-27T08:03:09.251-05:00Comments on Religion in the American West: WHA in Denver: A RecapReligion in the American Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10840982555917381092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post-64313762473391553622012-10-21T04:38:43.325-04:002012-10-21T04:38:43.325-04:00Thanks for this review, Quincy and Tisa.
I attend...Thanks for this review, Quincy and Tisa.<br /><br />I attended a few other sessions pertinent to religion in the West. On Sunday morning there was an session on Indigenous Latter-day Saint communities in the American West. Farina King, a graduate student at ASU, spoke about oral history interviews she conducted with Navajo Latter-day Saints and focused on the way Navajo Latter-day Saints negotiate both their Mormonism and Navajoness. Dominic Martinez, director of the Office of Diversity at CU-Denver, spoke about the site of a former Hawai'ian colony in western Utah, Iosepa, settled by Hawai'ian Latter-day Saints in the late nineteenth century, which is still a significant site of memorial and diaspora to Polynesians living in Utah. And finally, D.L. Turner, also a graduate student at ASU, spoke about continuity and change in an Indigenous Latter-day Saint community in Arizona.<br /><br />Earlier that morning I heard an interesting paper in a session on education in the West. Alexander Olson, from the University of Michigan, gave a talk on the unconventional views of Mary Austin and the challenge she posed to the boundaries of religious education, positioning her as a public intellectual in a field where she has often been marginalized as a feminine mystic and eccentric. It was a very interesting paper.<br /><br />Anyone else attend sessions or papers that addressed the issue of religion in the American West?Stan Thaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08680909485025905083noreply@blogger.com