Item Detail
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28066
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2
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8
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English
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"Richard Howard Lecture : Railroading Independence : Pulpit Rock and the Work of Mormon Imagination"
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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Spring/Summer 2017
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37
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1
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Independence, MO
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John Whitmer Historical Association
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29-50
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This article is about how certain religious institutions and imaginations were forged also in such moments, or such moments-between. It is about how railroad agents and otherwise railroad-invested persons shaped lines of sight as well as lines of time along railroad lines, and-more than that-how they trained many Americans to think about Mormonism, in particular. Railroads simultaneously framed and incorporated Mormonism, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Gentile imagination and American politics. And certain Mormon groups found ways to leverage those connections when shaping and re-shaping orthodox narratives of Mormon independence. [from the text]
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