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Mormons are people who are members of a religious group that is part of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

Contents

• Religion
• Literature
• Places
• Arts and entertainment
• Butterflies
• Other uses
• See also

Mormon may also refer to:

Religion

• Mormon (word), informal term for a follower or constituent of the Latter-Day Saint movement, the polite term being 'saint'
• Mormonism, term for Christian theologies which accept the Book of Mormon, common to the Latter-Day Saint movement
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the "LDS Church" or "Mormon Church", the largest and most prominent faith within the Latter Day Saint movement
• Latter-Day Saint movement, the group of faiths tracing their origin to Joseph Smith Jr.
• Mormon studies, the academic discipline involving scholarship about Mormons
• Mormon fundamentalism, branches of the Latter-Day Saint movement which continue to practice polygamy
• Jack Mormon, slang for an unbaptized Mormon sympathizer or a Mormon member who is not fully devout

Places

• Mormon, California, an unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California, US

Arts and entertainment

• The Mormons (miniseries), a 2007 PBS documentary about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Butterflies

• "Mormon" is part of the common name of several butterflies in the genus Papilio , in particular:
  • Andaman Mormon (Papilio mayo) found in the Adamans
  • Great Mormon (Papilio memnon), endemic to Indochina and Japan
  • Blue Mormon (Papilio polymnestor), endemic to parts of India
  • Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), endemic to India, the Himalayas, parts of China, and Indochina
  • Scarlet Mormon (Papilio rumanzovia), endemic to the Philippines and Celebes

Other uses

• 'Mormon tea', a name for plants of the genus Ephedra
• Anabrus simplex, the Mormon cricket
• Sphenophorus mormon , a species of beetle in the family Dryophthoridae
• Mopsus mormon is an Australian spider species of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders)
• inflected form of Mormo (Greek: Μορμώ, Μορμών, Mormō), a female spirit in Greek folklore

See also

• List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Moerman (disambiguation)
• Moorman (disambiguation) (also shows entries for “Moormann”)
• Morman

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