Hugh Nibley's coded language and the minority mind-set
Boyd J. Petersen told the Utah Valley University conference on "outmigration" about how Hugh Nibley — and other Mormons — coped with the divided sense of self that minorities often experience in the larger society.
Petersen, author of "Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life," spoke on Nov. 6 about how members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints live with contradictory public images.
"Mormons would like nothing more than to see themselves as fully American and fully Mormon," Petersen said, "but they are constantly forced to see their Mormonness through the lens of ignorance and misconception that their fellow Americans have."
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