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Title:
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America.
Author:
Fluhman, J. Spencer.
ISBN:
9781469601595

9780807837405
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Abstract:
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.
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