User:Hydrangeans/draft of Heavenly Mother

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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Origins
[articulated by Joseph Smith and Eliza R. Snow]

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

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

Twenty-first century
[contestation; post-gender theology; reassertion]

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

Poetry
[reviews of poetry collections]

Literature
[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.