What I want to kind of switch to is how a neo-fight interpretive model of looking at the

Book of Mormon can help us dive in deeper to understanding these gender roles as well

as their linkage with these racial concepts, because the two come together in a peculiar

way within the Book of Mormon, and that peculiar way will take us right directly to 19th

century America.

So again, as a recap for people who may have just been joining, it didn't see or some

of the earlier interview, is that I use the term neo-fight to refer to native converts

to Christianity and to indigenous prophetic movements.

In this approach, I've designed it to center indigenous voices and perspectives.

It's a way of understanding the Book of Mormon more within the context of indigenous people's

experience, which is largely absent from the Book of Mormon.

And I treat the Book of Mormon in this approach as an allegorical commentary on contemporary

neo-fight communities, presenting ancient characters as types and shadows of actual people

in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In other words, what I think Joseph Smith was doing, whether he realized it or not, in

his storytelling that comes through in the Book of Mormon, he's taking things that were

familiar to him from his time and place and projecting them back into ancient America.

He's even taking individual people with whom he is likely familiar and using them as models

for characters in the Book of Mormon.

Now Dan Vogel has done a great job of establishing this within the Book of Mormon and the early

parts of the Book of Mormon and the Book of Nephi and the relationship within Nephi's

family.

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