Introduction
To say that what happened as the LDS Church globalized was a shift from the literal to the metaphorical is to understand only one piece of the puzzle. It is my contention that in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, we can see creative slippages taking place within Mormonism between the literal and metaphorical, text and object, and history and space. Rather than simply moving to more metaphorical understandings, the Mormon community has spiritualized and metaphorized and then reconcretized concepts such as gathering and Zion in the material and physical realm so that believers can continue to touch and physically engage these central theological principles.
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pp. 239-260
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pp. 145-160
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