Daryl White

DARYL WHITE is professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, coeditor of Religion in the Contemporary South, and, with George Armelagos, coeditor of Globalization and the Evolution of Emerging Disease (Athens: University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). He has published numerous articles in the anthropology and sociology of religion.

Ecclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

This article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…