Abstract: This article uses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in post-independence Nigeria to examine the transition from individuated agents of religious exchange to integration into global corporate religiosity. Early Latter-day Saint adherents saw Mormonism as a mechanism by which they could acquire access to monetary resources from a financially stable Western patronage, despite political animosity due to Mormonism's racist policies and sectional tumult during the Nigeria-Biafra war. Drawing on oral and archival records, this article highlights how Mormonism as an American-based faith was able to be "translated" to meet the exigencies of indigenous adherents.

中文翻译：

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天城：尼日利亚独立后的“摩门教”与美国身份

摘要：本文使用独立后尼日利亚的耶稣基督后期圣徒教会来研究从宗教交流的个体化代理人到融入全球企业宗教信仰的转变。早期的后期圣徒信徒将摩门教视为一种机制，通过这种机制，他们可以从财务稳定的西方赞助人那里获得货币资源，尽管由于摩门教的种族主义政策和尼日利亚-比夫拉战争期间的局部骚乱而引起政治敌意。本文利用口述和档案记录，强调了摩门教作为一种基于美国的信仰如何能够被“翻译”以满足土著信徒的迫切需要。