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Journal Article

English

Schmidt, Leigh Eric

Mormons, Freethinkers, and the Limits of Toleration

Journal of Mormon History

Spring 2014

40

2

Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

2014

59-91

Mormons and Freethinkers seem at first blush an unlikely pairing. Nonetheless, the two have an intertwined story, especially in the late nineteenth century. They shared an outsider status of particular severity in relation to Protestant America, and that marginalization joined them, in spite of their ample differences, in the supercharged politics surrounding religious and civil liberties. In this lecture, the author offers an initial mapping of the relationship between Mormons and freethinkers in the critical era of George Edmunds and Anthony Comstock, B. H. Roberts and Robert Ingersoll. [From the article]

http://www.jstor.org/stable/24243771

Religious freedom
Smith, Joseph, Jr., revelations
Non-Mormons, relations with, 19th century
Minorities, religious
U.S. government, relations with, 19th century
Anti-Mormonism, U.S., 19th century
Church-state relations, 19th century

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