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Fluhman, J. Spencer

A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina Press

2012

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[2013 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best First Book]

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.

Anti-Mormonism, responses to
Religiosity
Award Winner
Anti-Mormonism, U.S., 19th century

A Brief History of the Mormon Smile
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
Alexander Campbell : Another Restorationist
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
Apologetics and Antiquity: Book of Mormon Reception, 1830–1844
"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
"As a bird sings" : Hannah Tapfield King, Poetess and Pioneer
Authority in Mormonism : A Rational Choice Analysis
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Buchanan, Popular Sovereignty, and the Mormons : The Election of 1856
Campbellites and Mormonites : Competing Restoration Movements
Catholic and Mormon : A Theological Conversation
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Cunning Distortions: Folk Christianity and Witchcraft Allegations in Early Mormon History
Disciplinary Democracy : Mormon Violence and the Construction of the Modern American State
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
“Effusions of an Enthusiastic Brain” : Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the Limits of Experiential Religion
Et Incarnatus Est : The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity
Excavating Early Mormon History : The 1878 History Fact-Finding Mission of Apostles Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
Exhibiting Theology : James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20
Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic's Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview
Fashioning a Newer Mormon History
"Female Brethren" : Gender Dynamics in a Newly Integrated Missionary Force, 1898-1915
Foundations of the Restoration : Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes
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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
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
"I... Decided to Join the Body of Saints" : Archibald Gardner and the Building of the Nauvoo Road
“In Their Promised Canaan Stand” : Outlawry, Landscape, and Memory in C. C. A. Christensen’s Mormon Panorama
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Jesus Christ, Marriage, and Mormon Christianities : 2016 Smith-Pettit Lecture, Sunstone Symposium
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
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Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
Mormon Christianity : What Other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints
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“My Indignation Has Got the Better of My Intention”: A Case Study in Latter-day Saint and “Gentile” Female Family Correspondence in Nineteenth-Century America
"My Principality on Earth Began" : Millennialism and the Celestial Kingdom in the Development of Mormon Doctrine
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On Signifiers and Signified: Terryl Givens and Twenty-First-Century Book of Mormon Studies
"Our Religion Is Not Hostile to Real Science" : Evolution, Eugenics, and Race/Religion-Making in Mormonism's First Century
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion
Polygamy : An Early American History
Polygamy in the Nation's Capitol : Protestant Women and the 1899 Campaign against B.H. Roberts
Praying with One Eye Open : Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Prophets and Prophecy in the Qur'an and the Book of Mormon
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Real Native Genius :
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Real vs. Rumor : How to Dispel Latter-day Myths
Reconstruction and Mormon America
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
"Richard Howard Lecture : Railroading Independence : Pulpit Rock and the Work of Mormon Imagination"
Seer Stones, Salamanders, and Early Mormon "Folk Magic" in the Light of Folklore Studies and Bible Scholarship
Some Little Necromancy : Politics, Religion, and the Mormons
Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy
Subjective Objects : "The Book of Pukei" and Early Critical Response to The Book of Mormon
The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
The Gathering of Scattered Israel : The Missionary Enterprise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 8 : February–November 1841
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Mormons, the Victorians, and the Idea of Greater Britain
The Politics of Mormon History
The Proselytizing Enterprise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
There is No Mormon Trail of Tears : Roots, Removals, and Reconstructions
The Religion Is Assailed by Most in the Country : A Letter from the First Latter-day Saint Converts in Jamaica
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
The Worldwide Church : Mormonism as a Global Religion
To Expound Scriptures, and to Exhort the Church : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women and Public Discourse
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Forum: Terryl Givens, Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Untouchable: Joseph Smith's Use of the Law As Catalyst for Assassination
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
What We Will Do Now That New Mormon History is Old : A Roundtable
Where the World, Babel, and Zion Meet : Redefining the Mormon People at the 1964-65 Mormon Pavilion
William McCary, Lucy Stanton, and the Performance of Race at Winter Quarters and Beyond
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
"Ye Are No More Strangers and Foreigners" : Theological and Economic Perspectives on the LDS Church and Immigration
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
A Jesuit Interpretation of Mid-Nineteenth-Century America : "Mormonism in Connection with Modern Protestantism"
A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
A Mormon Bibliography 1830-1930 : Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
Anabaptism and Mormonism : A Study in Comparative History
An Address to All Believers in Christ. By a Witness to the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon
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An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
An Introduction to Mormonism
Anti-Mormonism in Illinois : Thomas C. Sharp's Unfinished History of the Mormon War, 1845
Anti-Mormon Mob Violence and the Rhetoric of Law and Order in Early Mormon History
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'A Place Prepared' : Joseph, Brigham and the Quest for Promised Refuge in the West
"A P.O. Box and a Desire to Witness for Jesus" : Identity and Mission in the Ex-Mormons for Jesus/Saints Alive in Jesus, 1975-90
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A Rational Theology : As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Are Christians Mormon? Reassessing Joseph Smith's Theology in His Bicentennial
A Study of Mormon Knowledge of the American Far West Prior to the Exodus (1830 - February, 1846)
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By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Career Apostates : Reflections on the Works of Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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Cultures in Conflict : A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois
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Early Mormon Documents : Volume II
Early Mormon Documents : Volume III
Early Mormon Documents : Volume IV
Early Mormon Documents : Volume V
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Pamphleteering
Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Evaluating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Expose? of Polygamy : A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Female Life Among the Mormons ; A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience
Fifteen Years among the Mormons : Being the Narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith
Fire and Sword : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
From Historian to Dissident : The Book of John Whitmer
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
Gleanings By the Way
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of the Late Persecution Inflicted by the State of Missouri Upon the Mormons
History of Utah 1540-1886
How Wide the Divide? : A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West
Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine : The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
James Gordon Bennett's 1831 Report on 'The Mormonites'
Joe Smith and the Mormons
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay on the Perils of Historical Analogy
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Missouri Court of Inquiry : Austin A. King's Quest for Hostages
Joseph Smith as Scientist : A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy
Joseph Smith, Builder of Ideal Communities
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Concept of the City of Zion
Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reappraised
Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
Joseph Smith : The Making of a Prophet
Joseph Smith, the Prophet, His Family and His Friends
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Making Space for the Mormons : Ideas of Sacred Geography in Joseph Smith's America
Manchester Mormons : The Journal of William Clayton 1840 to 1842
Manuscript Found : The Complete Original 'Spaulding Manuscript' by Solomon Spaulding
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Men with a Mission : The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles 1837-1841
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Christianity
Mormon Domestic Life in the 1870's : Pandemonium or Arcadia?
Mormon History
Mormonism and Islam : From Polemics to Mutual Respect and Cooperation
Mormonism and Islam through the Eyes of a 'Universal Historian'
Mormonism and the Mormons
Mormonism : embracing the origin, rise and progress of the sect
Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838
Mormonism In All Ages : Or, The Rise, Progress and Causes of Mormonism
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism Portrayed : Its Errors and Absurdities Exposed, and the Spirit and Designs of Its Authors Made Manifest
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism Unveiled : Zion's Watchman Unmasked
Mormonites
Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy : A Crisis Theology
Mormon 'Peculiarity' : Recapitulation and Subordination
Mormon Persecutions in Missouri, 1833
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Redress Petitions : Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict
Mormons and Jews : Early Mormon Theologies of Israel
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Mormons and Mormonism in U.S. Government Documents : A Bibliography
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons Study "Abroad" : Brigham Young' Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo Polygamy : "... But We Called it Celestial Marriage"
Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
No Toil nor Labor Fear : The Story of William Clayton
Old Wine in New Bottles : The Story behind Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Opposition to Polygamy in the Postbellum South
Peace Initiative : Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and Ethnicity in American History
Penny Tracts and Polemics : A Critical Analysis of Anti-Mormon Pamphleteering in Great Britain, 1837-1860
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Plural Marriage, As Taught by the Prophet Joseph
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Public Opinion, Culture, and Religion in Utah
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Rediscovering the Context of Joseph Smith's Treasure Seeking
Religion and National Construction in the Age of Lincoln
Religion and Sexuality : The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
Re-visioning Mormon History
Selling God : American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture
Similarities and Differences in the Anabaptist Restitution and the Mormon Restoration
Socioreligious Radicalism of the Mormon Church : A Parallel to the Anabaptists
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
Speaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed
The Americanization of Religious Minorities : Confronting the Constitutional Order
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Anthon Transcript : People, Primary Sources, and Problems
The Archive of Restoration Culture, 1997-2002
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Book of Daniel in Early Mormon Thought
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Construction of the Mormon People
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Danite Band of 1838
'The Death of a Mormon Dictator' : Letters of Massachusetts Mormons, 1843-1848
The Democratization of American Christianity
The Devil Makers : Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
The Early Republic's Supernatural Economy : Treasure Seeking in the American Northeast, 1780-1830
The Essential Parley P. Pratt
The Founder of Mormonism : A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The History of Illinois, from Its First Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Time
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 1 : Manuscript Revelation Books
The Kingdom of Matthias
The Kirtland Economy Revisited : A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
The Last Months of Mormonism in Missouri : The Albert Perry Rockwood Journal
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Bible
The Mormon Church on Trial : Transcripts of the Reed Smoot Hearings
The Mormon Corridor : Utah and Idaho
The Mormon Doctrine of Deity : The Roberts-Van der Donckt discussion
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon-Muslim Comparison
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons : Or Latter-Day Saints
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Mormon Village : Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan
The Myth of American Religious Freedom
The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois : A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841-1846
The New England Origins of Mormonism
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1 : Autobiographical and Historical Writings
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 2 : Journal, 1832-1842
The Political and Social Realities of Zion's Camp
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prophet of Palmyra
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Religious Heritage of the British Northwest and the Rise of Mormonism
The Rise of a New World Faith
The Rise of Mormonism
The Saintly Scoundrel : The life and times of Dr. John Cook Bennett
The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
'The Tongue of Angels' : Glossolalia among Mormonism's Founders
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Visionary World of Joseph Smith
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Turkey Is in Our Midst : Mormonism as an American Islam
Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona
Two Rare Missouri Documents
Two Restoration Traditions : Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century
Vicissitudes Illustrated, in the Experience of Nancy Towle, in Europe and America
View of the Hebrews : 1825 2nd Edition
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
Why We Practice Plural Marriage
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Law : Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview
William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter
Working the Divine Miracle : The Life of Apostle Henry D. Moyle
World Religion : Dynamics and Constraints
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900