{"product_id":"a-chosen-people-a-promised-hokulani-k-aikau-9780816674626","title":"A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many indigenous people embrace Christian faith as part of their cultural and ethnic identities. \u003ci\u003eA Chosen People, a Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e gets to the heart of this contradiction by exploring how Native Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (more commonly known as Mormons) understand and negotiate their place in this quintessentially American religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMormon missionaries arrived in Hawai'i in 1850, a mere twenty years after Joseph Smith founded the church. Hokulani K. Aikau traces how Native Hawaiians became integrated into the religious doctrine of the church as a \"chosen people\"--even at a time when exclusionary racial policies regarding black members of the church were being codified. Aikau shows how Hawaiians and other Polynesian saints came to be considered chosen and how they were able to use their venerated status toward their own spiritual, cultural, and pragmatic ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the words of Native Hawaiian Latter-Day Saints to illuminate the intersections of race, colonization, and religion, \u003ci\u003eA Chosen People, a Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e examines Polynesian Mormon articulations of faith and identity within a larger political context of self-determination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hokulani K. Aikau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816674620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816674626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 15","brand":"Hokulani K. Aikau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980613353727,"sku":"9780816674626","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7b5b110e-b156-4601-9417-505d5e3a76ca.jpg?v=1683250909","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-chosen-people-a-promised-hokulani-k-aikau-9780816674626","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}