Description: Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith's attempts to spread its gospel as a "civilizing" force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.
Review Quotes: "Imperial Zions is a signal contribution to the history of the Latter-day Saints. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto brings modern scholarly concepts of empire and colonialism to bear in a thoughtful, insightful way. Her intertwined analyses of Native American and Pacific Islander Latter-day Saints represent a crucial advance in the field."--Quincy D. Newell, author of Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon