#my mother is really really like this. i think shed be infinitelynhappier if she gave it up and just became the hindu she wishes she was | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

grubloved · 2 years

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id rly love to see an ethnography of mormon womens' folk religion. it might be hard to get, though, because it is like kind of understood youre not really supposed to talk about it like it's real. theres this like doublethink thats essential to the culture. really interesting politics n motions and directions.

#like i think the invented religion is a rly big part of why women r so less likely to leave #even though theyre secondclass citizens; u become so attatched to ur perfect version of the theology #that uve spent years constructing from essentially scraps #that it doesnt matter when 'real' doctrine shit gets weird; you are very nearly in a religion of one #and the stuff you care abt most you invented wholesale or stole and you think you cant leave the 'real' stufd without abandoning #the things you made. it is really interesting #my mother is really really like this. i think shed be infinitelynhappier if she gave it up and just became the hindu she wishes she was #but she cant approach it outside of the lense of scavenging to add to her own judtifications for remaining mormon.#scraps book

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