RT Book
T1 Contingent citizens: shifting perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American political culture
A2 McBride, Spencer W.
A2 Rogers, Brent M.
A2 Erekson, Keith A.
A2 Jortner, Adam Joseph
LA English
PP Ithaca
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1675847487
AB 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.
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BX8643.P6
SN 9781501716737
SN 9781501749544
K1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : Political activity : History
K1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : Public opinion : History
K1 Mormons : Political activity : History
K1 Mormons : Public opinion : History
K1 Political Culture : United States : History
K1 Public Opinion : United States : History