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Mason, Patrick Q.

The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South

New York, NY

Oxford University Press

2011

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"'It incarnates every unclean beast of lust, guile, falsehood, murder, despotism and spiritual wickedness.' So wrote a prominent Southern Baptist official in 1899 of Mormonism. Rather than the 'quintessential American religion,' as it has been dubbed by contemporary scholars, in the late nineteenth century Mormonism was America's most vilified homegrown faith. A vast national campaign featuring politicians, church leaders, social reformers, the press, women's organizations, businessmen, and ordinary citizens sought to end the distinctive Latter-day Saint practice of plural marriage, and to extinguish the entire religion if need be. Placing the movement against polygamy in the context of American and southern history, Mason demonstrates that anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest vehicles for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of newly expanded federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marriage and the American republic." [Publisher's abstract]

Plural marriage, opposition to
Anti-Mormonism, American setting
Plural marriage, American setting
Crime and violence
U.S., southeastern
Missiology, U.S.

A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Society of Like-Minded Men : American Localism and the Mormon Expulsion from Jackson County
B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Death to Seducers! Examples of Latter-day Saint-led Extralegal Justice in Historical Context
"Deep in the Shades of Ill-Starred Georgia's Wood" : The Murder of Elder Joseph Standing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
Disciplinary Democracy : Mormon Violence and the Construction of the Modern American State
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
Expanding Research for the Expanding International Church
Framing the Nation : Religion, Film, and American Belonging
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Gender and Missionary Work
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Latter-Day Prophets : Their Lives, Teachings, and Testimonies
Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History
Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
Mormon Commitment Mechanisms
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and the Catawba Indian Nation
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormonism and White Supremacy : American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Mormonism in the American Political Domain
Mormon Popular Culture
Mormons, Freethinkers, and the Limits of Toleration
Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre, and Belonging in America
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
One Devout Mormon Family's Struggle with Racism
On Signifiers and Signified: Terryl Givens and Twenty-First-Century Book of Mormon Studies
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Polygamy : An Early American History
Praying with One Eye Open : Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
"Reasonings Sufficient" : Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the context(s) of early Mormonism
Reconstruction and Mormon America
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Staging the Saints : Mormonism and American Musical Theater
Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The Application of Federal Power in Utah Territory
The Gathering of Scattered Israel : The Missionary Enterprise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 10 : May–August 1842
The Mormon Church in Utah
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Politics of Mormon History
The Powell Expedition : New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey
The Proselytizing Enterprise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
"The Wars and the Perplexities of the Nations" : Reflections on early Mormonism, violence, and the state
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Forum: Terryl Givens, Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Unpopular Sovereignty : Brigham Young and the U.S. Government, 1847-1877
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
“We’re Going to Take Our Land Back Over” : Indigenous Positionality, the Ethnography of Reading, and The Book of Mormon
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
“What Means This Carnage?” : The Civil War in Mormon Thought
Whither Mormons' Lost Cause? : Collective Historical Memory in Comparison

A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Divinity Shapes Our Ends : As Seen in My Life Story
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
'All Alone and None to Cheer Me' : The Southern States Mission Diaries of J. Golden Kimball
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
A Stench in the Nostrils of Honest Men : Southern Democrats and the Edmunds Act of 1882
Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (Classics in Mormon Literature)
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow, One of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Black and Mormon
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Early Mormon Polygamy Defenses
Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt
Folkways of a Mormon Missionary in Virginia
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the LDS Southern States Mission, 1867-1898
History of the Southern States Mission, 1831-1861
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Making Saints : In the Early Days and the Latter Days
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Mormon Beginnings in the American South
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Myth, Mormonism, and Murder in the South
Neither White nor Black : Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church
Opposition to Polygamy in the Postbellum South
Our Heritage : A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Pacifism and Mormonism : A Study in Ambiguity
Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism
Peace Initiative : Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and Ethnicity in American History
Phrenology among the Mormons
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamy Defended : One Side of a Nineteenth-Century Polemic
Praying with One Eye Open, A Gendered Interpretation of Mormon Joseph Standing's Murder in Appalachian Georgia
Prisoner for Polygamy : The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Relations of Rescue : The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
Rioting in Its Jacksonian Setting
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Senator George Graham Vest and the 'Menace' of Mormonism, 1882-1887
Sheaves, Bucklers, and the State : Mormon Leaders Respond to the Dilemmas of War
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
Stalwarts of Mormonism
Tennessee's Mormon Massacre
'The Biggest Whorehouse in the World' : Representations of Plural Marriage in Nineteenth-century America
The Construction of the Mormon People
The Crusades against the Masons, Catholics, and Mormons : Separate Waves of a Common Current
The Dawning of a Brighter Day : The Church in Black Africa
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Martyrdom of Joseph Standing
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Church and the Spanish-American War : An End to Selective Pacifism
The Mormon Church on Trial : Transcripts of the Reed Smoot Hearings
The Mormon Colonies in Mexico
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Possibilities of Mormon Peacebuilding
There is no Law : A History of Mormon Civil Relations in the Southern States, 1865-1905
'There is No Law in Georgia for Mormons' : The Joseph Standing Murder Case of 1879
The Rise of Mormonism
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
The Scattering of the Gathered and the Gathering of the Scattered : The Mormon Diaspora in the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Translator and the Ghostwriter : Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Utah Pioneering : An Autobiography
Victorian Pornographic Imagery in Anti-Mormon Literature
Virginia Folkways from a Mormon Journal
"We Have Found What We Have Been Looking For!" : The Creation of the Mormon Religious Enclave Among the Catawba, 1883-1920
When Push Came to Shove : Mormon Martyrs in an Unrelenting Bible Belt, 1831-1923
Who's Who In the Doctrine and Covenants
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900