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Danish, But Not Lutheran : The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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288
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[2019 Mormon Historical Association Honorable Mention for Best International Book]
"The Danish-Mormon migration to Utah in the nineteenth century was, relative to population size, one of the largest European religious out-migrations in history. Hundreds of thousands of Americans can trace their ancestry to Danish Mormons, but few know about the social and cultural ramifications of their ancestors' conversion to Mormonism. This book tells that exciting and complex story for the first time. In 1849, after nearly a thousand years of state-controlled religion, Denmark's first democratic constitution granted religious freedom. One year later, the arrival of three Mormon missionaries in Denmark and their rapid success at winning converts to their faith caused a crisis in Danish society over the existential question: "How could someone be Danish but not Lutheran?" Over the next half-century nearly thirty thousand Danes joined the LDS Church, more than eighteen thousand of whom emigrated to join their fellow Mormons in Utah. This volume explores the range of Danish public reactions to Mormonism over a seventy-year period-from theological concerns articulated by Soren and Peter Christian Kierkegaard in the 1850s to fear-mongering about polygamy and white slavery in silent films of the 1910s and 1920s-and looks at the personal histories of converts." [Publisher]
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A Historian in Zion : The Autobiography of Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian
An Autobiography of Peter Olsen Hansen, 1818-1895 : Mormon Convert and Pioneer Missionary, Translator of Book of Mormon Into Danish
Andrew Jenson : Zealous Chronologist
Andrew Jenson : Zealous Chronologist
A Re-evaluation of the 'Turner Thesis and Mormon Beginnings . . . .'
A Victim of the Mormons and The Danites : Images and Relics from Early Twentieth-Century Anti-Mormon Silent Films
Brigham Young : American Moses
Clash of Cultures : The Norwegian Experience with Mormonism, 1842-1920
De Danske Mormoners Historie
Defending Mormonism : The Scandinavian Mission Presidency of Andrew Jenson, 1909–12
Determining and Defining 'Wife' : The Brigham Young Households
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Fire on Ice : The Story of the Icelandic Latter-day Saints at Home and Abroad
Go Ye into all the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
History of the Scandinavian Mission
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
Image of Zion : Mormonism as an American Influence in Scandinavia
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Legacy of Sacrifice : Missionaries to Scandinavia, 1872-1894
Mads Nielsen, David og Marie i Guds eget land : en slg?tskrn?ike : fra Nordfyn til Elsinore i Utah
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Bibliografi 1837-1984 : En Dansk
Mormonerne (Medlemmer af Jesu
Kristi Kirke af Sidste Dages Hellige) i Danske Aviser i Årene 1850–1851
Mormon Scandinavian Immigrants' Experiences among English-speaking Settlers
Mr. Samuelsen Goes to Copenhagen : The First Mormon Member of a National Parliament
Oh, Du Zion i Vest : Den Danske Mormon-Emigration
Out of the Swan's Nest : The Ministry of Anthon H. Lund, Scandinavian Apostle
Pleasant Grove Sesquicentennial History
Rejsen til Amerikas Zion : Den Danske Mormonudvandring før Århundredeskiftet
Scandinavia, the Church in
Ships, Saints, and Mariners : A Maritime Encyclopedia of Mormon Migration, 1830-1890
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Supporting Saints : Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons
The Idea of Pre-Existence in the Development of Mormon Thought
The Introduction of Mormonism to Finnish Society, 1840-1900
The Mormon Missionary of the Nineteenth Century
The Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Mormon Missionary Model
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Reverend Dr. Peter Christian Kierkegaard's "About and Against Mormonism" (1855)
The Scandinavian Immigrant Experience in Utah, 1850-1920 : Using Material Culture to Interpret Cultural Adaptation
'Up the Ditch' : The History of Elsinore, Utah