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Crossings

A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar's Ventures through Life, Death, Cancer & Motherhood (Not Necessarily in that Order)
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In this collection of personal essays, letters, and even drawings, Melissa Inouye considers how Latter-day Saints in an increasingly globalized Church might cultivate unity without leaving their distinctive gifts behind. As an Asian American Latter-day Saint feminist religious studies China scholar, she feels the urgency of the Lord’s command that the Church “be one” (Doctrine & Covenants 38:27).

With her unique mix of humor and candor, empathy and idealism, Inouye draws upon her academic training in Chinese history and religious studies, her rich cultural heritage, her experiences raising a family in an international setting, her tangle with cancer, and her resilient faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ to unfurl vibrant reflections on the enduring question of what it means to be a Latter-day Saint today.

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About the Author

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

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Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is a lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and is in the process of finishing a book manuscript on the history of the True Jesus Church in China, provisionally titled China’s True Jesus: Charisma and Its Limits in Chinese Christianity. She currently serves as an associate editor of the Mormon Studies Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Going Places

Long Departures, Long Returns

Mornings and Nights

Faith Is Not a String of Christmas Lights

Part Two: Staying Home

To the Bean

The Sweaty Sprout

Dispatch from Dissertation Research

To the Leaf

Newsletter from Los Angeles, California, December 2010

Newsletter from Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, December 2011

Newsletter from Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong, December 2012

Newsletter from Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong, December 2013

Four Songs That Never Let You Down

Part Three: Thinking Things Through

Newsletter from Auckland, New Zealand, December 2014

How Conference Comes to Hong Kong

Toxic Religion? The Parable of the Pan

Conversations Are Like Casseroles

Electric (Mutual) Joy

What Ana Said

The Problem We Want to Have

Newsletter from Auckland, New Zealand, December 2015

Snipping and Unsnipping

The Trouble with Revolutions

Human Infrastructure

Civilization = Organization?

Newsletter from Auckland, New Zealand, December 2016

Rich Entanglements

Part Four: Getting Disemboweled

FYI

Hello from Post-Op

Chemo

FOLFOX

400 Meters; 6 Miles

Looking Ahead

Part Five: Looking to the Future

A Letter to My Not-Yet-Teenage Children

Samurai Come Out Swinging and Get Scars

Rotten Things Rotten, Good Things Good

On Fear

Conclusion

Publication Information

Subject: Book of Mormon
Publication Month: June
Publication Year: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781944394806
Page Count: 288
Binding: Paperback, eBook
Price: $ 15.99
Imprint: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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