Environmental ethics in the Book of Mormon

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Publication Type honors thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department Religious Studies
Faculty Mentor Maeera Shreiber
Creator Lipman, Joshua
Title Environmental ethics in the Book of Mormon
Year graduated 2016
Date 2014-12
Description Current LDS environmental theology, championed by George Handley, includes critiques of Mormon pioneer history, analyses of the Doctrine of Covenants (the LDS book of laws), and LDS influenced nature writing such as the work of Terry Tempest-Williams. However the lack of ecological thought dedicated to the Book of Mormon, the central scripture of the faith, has left many Mormons unsatisfied by the general LDS environmental effort. I show that in the Book of Mormon, righteousness aligns with conservation by tracing the development of righteous and wicked characters and their relationships with nature. This is accomplished by applying ecological readings of the Hebrew Bible to similar stories in the Book of Mormon and its characters, then reflect how these readings may assert new environmental ethical models. The methodologies presented here will ideally lay the groundwork for further readings of a book that influences nearly fifteen million people and one of the wealthiest churches.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Book of Mormon - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Joshua A. Lipman
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 25,060 bytes
Identifier honors/id/61
Permissions Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1278264
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Setname ir_htoa
ID 205713
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q84pch