anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America
Edición de la obra A peculiar people
| Autor | J. Spencer Fluhman |
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| Editorial | University of North Carolina Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2012 |
| Lugar | Chapel Hill |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 229 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780807835715 |
| ISBN-10 | 0807835714 |
| OCLC | 778244920 |
| LCCN | 2012004089 |
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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 and the state took shape. - Jacket flap.