Using the concept of ""classical republicanism"" in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptional phenomenon representing a countercultural ideology fundamentally subversive to American society. Rather, he maintains, both t…
Reconstruction and Mormon America
"A collection of contributed essays examining Mormon history within the "Greater Reconstruction" of the United States after the Civil War and in comparison to other federal reconstruction efforts in the South and among the Native tribes"--.
Reconstruction and Mormon America
"A collection of contributed essays examining Mormon history within the "Greater Reconstruction" of the United States after the Civil War and in comparison to other federal reconstruction efforts in the South and among the Native tribes"--
Rather than the "quintessential American religion," as it has been dubbed by contemporary scholars, in the late nineteenth century Mormonism was America's most vilified homegrown faith. A vast national campaign featuring politicians, church leaders, social reformers, the press, …
Provides a reliable and accessible guide to America's largest indigenous religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its variants.
Provides a reliable and accessible guide to America's largest indigenous religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its variants.
Provides a reliable and accessible guide to America's largest indigenous religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its variants.
Provides a reliable and accessible guide to America's largest indigenous religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its variants.
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. In addition to starting his own religion and creating the Book of Mormo…
In this study of Mormonism and its relationship with Protestant white America in the nineteenth century, historian W. Paul Reeve examines the way in which Protestants racialized Mormons by using physical differences to define Mormons as non-white in order to justify the expulsio…
Out of obscurity: Mormonism since 1945
Out of obscurity: Mormonism since 1945
"Ezra Taft Benson's ultra-conservative vision made him one of the most polarizing leaders in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His willingness to mix religion with extreme right-wing politics troubled many. Yet his fierce defense of the traditional …
