Item Detail
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29104
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English
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God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
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Journal of Church and State
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53
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3
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Waco, TX
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J.M. Dawson Institute; Baylor University
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349-375
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[2012 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Article Award of Excellence]
Nineteenth-century Mormons protested both the spiritual disharmony they encountered in an increasingly cluttered American religious landscape and the early processes of what they perceived already as excessive secularization. Proclaiming their allegiance to God in all human affairs while also maintaining a sincere faith in American republicanism, early Mormons, under the direction of founding prophet Joseph Smith, sought to create a sociopolitical order that combined the virtues of government by God (theocracy) and by the people (democracy). Rather than seeing these systems as being competitive or contradictory, Smith and his followers viewed them as complementary; indeed, many argued that they were inseparable and could not be fully enacted one without the other, that theos and demos were in fact part of an organic system of government that permeated not only earthly but also heavenly realms. [From the text]
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