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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 113: Mormonsim and Mimetic Violence

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History, Education

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Join Lindsay as she discusses the theories of mob psychology, mimetic violence, sacrifice, and how polygamous doctrine interacts with those theories.     Links mentioned in this podcast: Milgram experiment Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard The Scapegoat by […]

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I'm your host, Lindsay,

0:39.8

and if you have been trying to listen to this podcast on the feminist Mormon Housewise podcast feed,

0:46.6

it isn't working, as you've noticed. It's been an issue that we're trying to work out. I'm relying on

0:51.8

volunteers to help me. I'm trying to transfer the

0:54.2

URL and a lot of the content from the site crashed and it's really above my experience with

1:00.4

web design. So I have volunteers who are helping, but I really have to rely on their timeline. So we're

1:05.5

working on getting that restored. But if you're listening, all of the contents can still be found

1:10.4

and will always be found on

1:12.1

YearPlygamy.com. A lot of your donations, those who are donating, goes to keeping that site up and

1:18.8

running. And so Year of Polygamy.com is where you're going to find all of the podcast feed. It's also on

1:26.0

iTunes under Year of Polygamy. And speaking of which, I am going to be

1:31.7

playing part of an old Mormon Expression podcast about Mountain Meadows Massacre today.

1:39.3

Mormon Expression is owned by the Whitefield's Education Foundation and John Larson. And I helped organize a panel and we're

1:46.6

going to cross post the podcast. We've had it cross posted on the FMH site forever. So I'm just

1:53.6

going to re-broadcast it. But it will show up in this feed so you can hear about it. What I'm going to do

1:58.3

today is start talking about several massacres. I've been doing

2:02.5

a lot of research lately on crowd psychology, mob psychology, memetic violence, and group violence

2:09.6

and group thinking. And because Mormonism is so tribal in so many ways, I think that it's an

2:15.5

appropriate thing to understand the context of Mormonism,

2:17.8

to understand the idea of how plural families shape group dynamics and how it translates to oppressed

2:27.0

groups. So we're going to be doing a series of probably three episodes of the massacres that have occurred in Mormonism's name. So it's going to be

2:37.4

unpleasant. It's going to be a little, a lot violent, and it might be hard to listen to. So if you

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