Contingent citizens shifting perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American political culture

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McBride, Spencer W. (Editor ), Rogers, Brent M. (Editor ), Erekson, Keith A. (Editor ), Jortner, Adam Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2020
Temas:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Political activity > History.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Public opinion > History.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter Day Saints > Political activity > History.
Latter Day Saints > Public opinion > History.
Political culture > United States > History.
Public opinion > United States > History.
Mormons > Activité politique > Histoire.
Mormons > Opinion publique > Histoire.
Opinion publique > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Mormons > Political activity
Political culture
Political participation
Public opinion
United States
Electronic books
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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