Marking Mormon Difference: How Western Perceptions of Islam Defined the "Mormon Menace"

This article argues that inaccurate perceptions of Muslim and Mormon sexual and political deviance merged to help fuel a sustained anti-Mormon campaign in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. The inflammatory rhetoric of slavery and defilement that anti-Mormon writers deployed to equate...

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Main Author: Heise, Tammy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2013]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2013, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 82-97
Further subjects:B Religious Intolerance
B anti-Mormon rhetoric
B Freedom Of Religion
B denominationalism
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