Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Casey A’hearn (Doctoral Student, Department of Religion, Princeton University) brings to us a presentation called “What Does It Mean to be Mormon and American?

Scripturalizing John J. Stewart’s Pamphlets Program.” A’hearn shares with us an fascinating intriguing example of scripturalization as example of the layering of modern discourses including race, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship in the modern world.

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