Contingent citizens: shifting perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American political culture
Introduction : not exceptional, typical, or Americanized : the Latter-day Saint experience with American politics / by Keith A. Erekson -- "Some little necromancy" : politics, religion, and the Mormons, 1829-1838 / Adam Jortner -- "Many think this Is a hoax" : the newspaper respo...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Contingent citizens] (2021) (Campbell, David E., 1971 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mormon Church
/ Religion
/ Politics
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Political Culture (United States)
History
B Public Opinion (United States) History B Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Political activity History B Mormons Public opinion History B Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Public opinion History B Mormons Political activity History |
| Summary: | Introduction : not exceptional, typical, or Americanized : the Latter-day Saint experience with American politics / by Keith A. Erekson -- "Some little necromancy" : politics, religion, and the Mormons, 1829-1838 / Adam Jortner -- "Many think this Is a hoax" : the newspaper response to Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential campaign / Spencer W. McBride -- The perils of a Protestant democracy : Mormon and Catholic conceptions of democratic rule in the 1840s / Benjamin E. Park -- "The woman's movement has discovered a new enemy--the Mormon Church" : the Equal Rights Amendment missionary program in Mormon Utah / Natalie K. Rose -- "The way of the transgressor Is hard" : the Black Hawk and Mormon wars in the construction of Illinois political culture, 1832-1846 / Amy S. Greenberg -- "Like a swarm of locusts" : perceptions of Mormon geopolitical power in a non-U.S. West, 1844-1848 / Thomas Richards Jr. -- "In the style of an independent sovereign": mid-nineteenth-century Mormon martial law proclamations in American political culture / Brent M. Rogers -- Political perceptions of Mormon polygamy and the struggle for Utah statehood, 1847-1896 / Stephen E. Smith -- A snake in the sugar : magazines, the Hardwick Committee, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1910-1911 / Matthew C. Godfrey -- "Rather than recognize this wretched imposture" : Edward Everett, rational religion, and the territory of Utah/Deseret / Matthew Mason -- Ambiguous allegiances, divided sovereignty : the Mormon experience in context / Rachel St. John -- Mormons at mid-century : "crushed politically, curtailed economically," but winning "universal respect for their devotion and achievements" / J.B. Haws -- The historic conflicts of our time : Ezra Taft Benson and national media representations of late twentieth-century Mormonism / Patrick Q. Mason. "American's willingness to accept Latter-day Saints as full participants in the American political system has varied over time, granting Mormons in the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing political needs and perceptions"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1501716735 |