Pedagogical Impulses and Incommensurables: Lived Mormonism in Hong Kong

Globalization is a brutal phenomenon. It brings us mass displacement, wars, terrorism, unchecked financial capitalism, inequality, xenophobia, and climate change. But if globalization is capable of holding out any fundamental promise to us, any temptation to go along with its havoc, then surely that...

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Published in:Mormon studies review
Main Author: Ford, Stacilee (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Illinois Research Press [2016]
In: Mormon studies review
Further subjects:B Hong Kong (China)
B Globalization Religious aspects Christianity
B Religion
B Cultural relations
B Neocolonialism
B Mormon Church
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:Globalization is a brutal phenomenon. It brings us mass displacement, wars, terrorism, unchecked financial capitalism, inequality, xenophobia, and climate change. But if globalization is capable of holding out any fundamental promise to us, any temptation to go along with its havoc, then surely that promise ought to be this: we will be more free to invent ourselves. In that country, this city, in Lahore, in New York, in London, that factory, this office, in those clothes, that occupation, in wherever it is we long for, we will be liberated to be what we choose to be.
ISSN:2156-8022
Contains:Enthalten in: Mormon studies review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18809/mimsr.21568030