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A Peculiar People - Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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A Peculiar People - Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of
religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its
founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew
thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People",
J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon
thought and the associated passionate debates about religious
authenticity in nineteenth-century America. He argues that
understanding anti-Mormonism provides critical insight into the
American psyche because Mormonism became a potent symbol around
which ideas about religion and the state took shape. Fluhman
documents how Mormonism was defamed, with attacks often aimed at
polygamy, and shows how the new faith supplied a social enemy for a
public agitated by the popular press and wracked with social and
economic instability. Taking the story to the turn of the century,
Fluhman demonstrates how Mormonism's own transformations, the
result of both choice and outside force, sapped the strength of the
worst anti-Mormon vitriol, triggering the acceptance of Utah into
the Union in 1896 and also paving the way for the dramatic, yet
still grudging, acceptance of Mormonism as an American religion.
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