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English
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Migration, Resistance, & Counter-hegemony : Mormonism's Final Attempt at Securing the Kingdom
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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Honor's Thesis
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"During the 1880s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was looked upon by the United States government as an extremely hostile entity that needed to be brought within the mainstream of America. Rather than submit peacefully, the Church hierarchy formulated a plan to strike back at the government crusade which had chosen polygamy as its target. While the 1880s campaign has been documented, none have attempted to view the controversy as a case study in competing hegemonies. This paper will demonstrate the Mormon position toward the government as counter-hegemonic. The migration of a select group of Latter-day Saints to northern Mexico beginning in the 1880s will demonstrate the depth which the hierarchy was willing to entrench themselves in order to maintain their core doctrines. This approach to one of Mormonism's most controversial periods will reveal the importance of the Mexico project and prove that Mormonism was not in retreat during the mid-1880s, but had launched a final attempt to combat the government in their struggle for paradise." [Author's abstract]