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Rhetoric In Mormon Female Healing Rituals During The Nineteenth Century, Carrie Ann King Johnson
Rhetoric In Mormon Female Healing Rituals During The Nineteenth Century, Carrie Ann King Johnson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Using the minutes of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, journals and diaries kept by early Mormon women, and letters written about healing blessings, this thesis looks at how nineteenth-century Mormon women used rhetoric in healing rituals to build community, claim power, and comfort one another thorough illness, death, and birth. Claudia L. Bushman points out that “Mormon women were much like other American women of their day, but their allegiance to the faith led them in some new directions.” Instead of retreating to acceptable standards of femininity, Mormon women claimed and used godly power and authority.
The women who …