Dialogue Lectures #28 w/Jared Hickman

<p>The newest Dialogue podcast features Dr. Jared Hickman, Assistant Professor in the English Department of Johns Hopkins University. Professor Hickman speaks on his essay "The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse," which was published in <em>American Literature</em>, a literary journal published by Duke University Press. <img class=" wp-image-7562 alignright" src="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Hickman-Jared.jpg" alt="Hickman-Jared" width="373" height="248" /><br /> From the Miller Eccles website: Recent official statements have left some doubt about the traditional understanding of the Book of Mormon as a history of “the Indians.” This presents us with two especially important tasks: 1) to understand why the “Indian question” seemed important enough, both politically and theologically, in Joseph Smith’s time and place, to claim such attention in a new scripture; and 2) to pay closer attention to the Book of Mormon text, which itself, in emphasizing the “Indian question,” offers a new narrative for understanding what it means. If we read with such questions in mind, we can recognize in the Book of Mormon a vision (or program) for Native American resurgence radically opposed to the European and American colonialism of Joseph Smith’s time.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/diablogue/dialogue-podcast-28-wjared-hickman/">Dialogue Lectures #28 w/Jared Hickman</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com">Dialogue Journal</a>.</p>