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Contingent Citizens Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Title
Contingent Citizens [electronic resource] : Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture / edited by Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson.
ISBN
1501716743
9781501716744
9781501716737
9781501749544
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 Political Science and Policy Studies.
Other formats
Online version: Contingent citizens Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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