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Administrative organization of the Mormon Church
Political science quarterly • 57 • Published In 1942 • Pages: 51-71
By: Durham, George Homer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, based for the most part on internal documents, is a description of the administrative organization of the Mormon Church. It covers the duties of the President, the First Presidency, the Council of Twelve, the Council of Seventy, and the Church courts, and how these bodies interact. It emphasizes the great power of the president, yet how this office works in concert with the others.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Priesthood
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Political Scientist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1847-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. Homer Durham
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons