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English
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The First Mormon Moment : The Latter-day Saints in American Culture, 1940-1965
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The Lively Experiment : Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
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Lanham, MD
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Rowman & Littlefield
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236-249
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Much was made during the years surrounding the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections of the nation’s so-called Mormon Moment. Mormons seemed to be everywhere in the early twenty-first century. Former governor of Massachusetts and faithful Latter-day Saint Mitt Romney was first a leading candidate for and then the winner of the Republican nomination for the presidency. Trey Parker and Matt Stone took the Tony Awards and the nation by storm when they put the fascination with Mormons often displayed in their animated television show, South Park , to music in The Book of Mormon. And popular television shows, from the award-winning HBO drama Big Love to the reality series Sister Wives , centered on the lives and beliefs of fundamentalist Mormons— who, unlike the far more numerous members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, practice polygamous marriage— inviting viewers to judge these peculiar practices for themselves. But despite the nation’s seemingly newfound interest in understanding rather than simply condemning the Latter-day Saints and their unique beliefs and behaviors, this was not America’s first Mormon Moment. [From the article]