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A pamphlet reprint of John Hafen's painting, depicting a mother figure hugging a daughter figure while standing in the middle of a path that cuts through a verdant field under a clear sky. Hafen painted this as an illustration of the hymn "O My Father", by Eliza R. Snow, which describes humanity having "a Mother There" in heaven, a divine companion to God the Father.
I've a Mother There by John Hafen

In the Latter Day Saint movement, Heavenly Mother, also called Mother in Heaven, is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father. []

Overview

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History

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Origins

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[articulated by Joseph Smith and Eliza R. Snow]

Pioneer era

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[era of polygamy; idea of plural Mothers in Heaven]

Twentieth century

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[heterosexual dyad; feminism; The Family: A Proclamation to the World]

Twenty-first century

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[contestation; post-gender theology; reassertion]

Art

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Visual art

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[essays about and reviews of visual art; John Hafen's I've a Mother There; Olsen Hemming's essay]

Poetry

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[reviews of poetry collections]

Literature

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[review of McArthur and Spalding, A Girl's Guide to Heavenly Mother; also review of Beyond the Mapped Stars perhaps]

Historical fiction novel Beyond the Mapped Stars depicts its protagonist, a young Latter-day Saint woman in the nineteenth-century Pioneer Corridor, saying a prayer to Heavenly Mother.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ Helps, Rachel. "Eves, Beyond the Mapped Stars". Association for Mormon Letters. Archived from the original on June 7, 2023. Retrieved January 15, 2024.

References

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Books

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  • Chadwick, Tyler; Patterson, Dayna; Pulido, Martin, eds. (2018). Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. Peculiar Pages.
  • Givens, Fiona (2020). "Feminism and Heavenly Mother". In Petrey, Taylor; Hoyt, Amy (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351181600. ISBN 9781351181587.
  • Givens, Terryl (2014). Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199794928.
  • Golding, David (2013). "Heavenly Mother". In Bushman, Claudia L.; Kline, Caroline (eds.). Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection. Greg Kofford. pp. 253–284. ISBN 978-1589584945.
  • Halford, Alison (2020). "The Empty Womb, the Unanswered Prayer: Female Infertility and Involuntary Childlessness in British Mormon Communities". In Page, Sarah-Jane; Pilcher, Katy (eds.). Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003130291. ISBN 9781000291438.
  • Howe, Susan Elizabeth (2018). "Introduction". In Chadwick, Tyler; Patterson, Dayna; Pulido, Martin (eds.). Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. Peculiar Pages. pp. 15–30.
  • Kline, Caroline (2014). "Mormon Feminist Blogs and Heavenly Mother Spaces for Ambivalence and Innovation in Practice and Theology". In Messina-Dysert, Gina; Ruether, Rosemary (eds.). Feminism and Religion in the 21st Century. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203509326. ISBN 9781134625314.
  • Kline, Caroline (2022). Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252053351.
  • Morrill, Susanna (2016). "Mormon Women's Agency and Changing Conceptions of the Mother in Heaven". In Holbrook, Kate; Bowman, Matt (eds.). Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. University of Utah. ISBN 9781607814771.
  • Park, Benjamin E. (2024). American Zion: A New History of Mormonism. Liveright. ISBN 9781631498664.
  • Stokes, Claudia (2014). The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-century American Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812246377.
  • Toscano, Margaret; Toscano, Paul (1990). Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology. Signature Books. ISBN 978-0941214988.
  • Toscano, Margaret (2012). "Movement from the Margins: Contemporary Mormon Women's Visions of the Mother God". In Lux-Sterritt, Laurence; Sorin, Claire (eds.). Spirit, Faith and Church: Women's Experiences in the English Speaking World, 17th–21st Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 207–226.
  • Wilcox, Linda P. (1987). "The Mormon Concept of a Mother in Heaven". In Beecher, Maureen Ursenbach; Anderson, Lavina Fielding (eds.). Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective. University of Illinois Press. pp. 64–77. ISBN 9780252062964.

Periodicals

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  • Albanese, Catherine L. (March–April 1981). "Mormonism and the Male-Female God: An Exploration in Active Mysticism". Sunstone. pp. 52–58.
  • Derr, Jill Mulvay (1996–97). "The Significance of 'O My Father' in the Personal Journey of Eliza R. Snow". Brigham Young University Studies. 36 (1): 84–126. JSTOR 43042019.
  • Eliason, Kristen (Spring 2018). "Opening Invisible Doors: Considering Heavenly Mother". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (review). 51 (1): 216–221. doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.51.1.0216.
  • Olsen Hemming, Margaret (Spring 2022). "The Divine Feminine in Mormon Art". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 55 (1): 1–35. doi:10.5406/15549399.55.1.01.
  • Ostler, Blaire (Winter 2018). "Heavenly Mother: The Mother of All Women". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 51 (4): 171–182. doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.51.4.0171.
  • Heeren, John; Lindsey, Donald B.; Mason, Marylee (December 1984). "The Mormon Concept of Mother in Heaven: A Sociological Account of Its Origins and Development". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 23 (4): 396–411. doi:10.2307/1385727. JSTOR 1385727.
  • Houston, Gail Turley (Fall 2018). "Mother, May We?". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 51 (3): 255–259. doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.51.3.0255.
  • Jorgensen, Danny L. (October 2000). "Gender-Inclusive Images of God: A Sociological Interpretation of Early Shakerism and Mormonism". Nova Religio. 4 (1): 66–85. doi:10.1525/nr.2000.4.1.66.
  • Jorgensen, Danny L. (Spring 2001). "The Mormon Gender-inclusive Image of God". Journal of Mormon History. 27 (1): 95–126. JSTOR 23288623.
  • Paulsen, David L.; Pulido, Martin (2011). "'A Mother There': A Survey of Historical Teachings About Mother in Heaven". Brigham Young University Studies. 50 (1): 70–97. JSTOR 43044842.
  • Petrey, Taylor G. (July 2016). "Rethinking Mormonism's Heavenly Mother". Harvard Theological Review. 109 (3): 315–341. doi:10.1017/S0017816016000122.
  • Petrey, Taylor G. (March 2020). "Silence and Absence: Feminist Philosophical Implications of Mormonism's Heavenly Mother". Shame and Absence: Feminist and Theological Reflections. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions. 59 (1): 57–68.
  • Rosetti, Cristina (Spring 2022). "'O My Mother': Mormon Fundamentalist Mothers in Heaven and Women's Authority". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 55 (1): 119–133. doi:10.5406/15549399.55.1.05.
  • Shurtz, Charlotte (Fall 2019). "Heavenly Mother in the Vernacular Religion of Latter-day Saint Women". Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies. 10 (1): 29–57.
  • Shurtz, Charlotte Scholl (Spring 2022). "A Queer Heavenly Family: Expanding Godhood Beyond a Heterosexual, Cisgender Couple". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 55 (1): 69–97. doi:10.5406/15549399.55.1.03.
  • Tolley, Kevin L. (2021). "The Earth as 'Mother of Men' in Latter-day Saint Theology". Latter-day Saint Theology and the Environment. Religions. 12 (11). doi:10.3390/rel12111016.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  • Toscano, Margaret (Spring 2022). "In Defense of Heavenly Mother: Her Critical Importance for Mormon Culture and Theology". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 55 (1): 37–68. doi:10.5406/15549399.55.1.02.
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