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English
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Mormons and the State
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Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's : The Mormons Contemporary Perspectives
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Salt Lake City
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The University of Utah Press
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236-257
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Gives a brief overview of the relations of the LDS Church's involvement in politics, concepts regarding authority and government, and the political conservatism shown by most LDS churchgoers as analyzed by Thomas O'Dea. However, this chapter discusses the tensions that affects the relationship of Mormons with the state, but shows that as the church has become more assimilated into mainstream U.S. society, problems associated with this tension have become more noticeable at the individual rather than institutional level.
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