Mormonism and Multiculturalism: Some Thoughts on the Book of Esther This meditation will begin, not with Esther’s ultimate triumph, when she announces her cultural identity and saves her people, but with her initial failure to acknowledge her Judaism to her husband and her peers. It will try to explain why people–and especially Mormon people–are sometimes hesitant to acknowledge their religion in environments that they perceive as hostile. And it will argue that those committed to a multi-cultural approach are responsible, not only for appreciating and valuing other people’s cultures, but for honestly representing their own.

Michael Austin