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Commodities, Cash, and Clerics - Economic Priorities and Administrative Strategies in Nineteenth Century Utah (Paperback)
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Commodities, Cash, and Clerics - Economic Priorities and Administrative Strategies in Nineteenth Century Utah (Paperback)
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The massive movement of pioneer migrants into the Great American
West has long captured the attention of writers. As with
immigration to America generally, the prime motive for
trans-Atlantic uprooting and settlement was economic. Yet there are
major exceptions, such as John Winthrop's Puritans, whose
city-on-a-hill motives were largely other-worldly. So it was with
the great Mormon migration that resulted in the unlikely confluence
of desert and Saints in the Great Basin. These members of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, imbued with the
religious zeal needed to reenact the Hebrew exodus on an American
stage, had been the victims of intolerance and bigotry. Their
momentous spiritual odyssey in the West required economic diligence
to achieve. Their economy was in many ways typical of that of other
areas; cash was used, but commodities were also a major means of
exchange. Yet there was a major difference, a practice seen nowhere
else in America on the scale to which it emerged in Utah. For
numerous Latter-day Saints, the first and foremost religious duty,
and economic priority, was to give away one-tenth of their increase
to the Church. Payment of the religious tithe became both common
and extensive, so much so that the management of commodities became
a major concern. This area of public resource management not only
had religious implications, but also economic and social welfare
consequences. As settlements expanded, tithing donations likewise
grew, and an accompanying network of bishops proliferated to manage
the tithing resources at the local, regional, and central levels.
It is on these leaders, these ecclesiastical managers of donated
resources that could melt, rot, make noise, and even run away, that
this book focuses.
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