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31630
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116
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English
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Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
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New York, New York
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Columbia University Press
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"When Joseph Smith ran for president as a radical protest candidate in 1844, Mormons were a deeply distrusted group in American society, and their efforts to enter public life were met with derision. When Mitt Romney ran for president as a Republican in 2008 and 2012, the public had come to regard Mormons as consummate Americans : patriotic, family-oriented, and conservative. How did this shift occur? In this collection, prominent scholars of Mormonism, including Claudia L. Bushman, Richard Lyman Bushman, Jan Shipps, and Philip L. Barlow, follow the religion's quest for legitimacy in the United States and its intersection with American politics. From Brigham Young's skirmishes with the federal government over polygamy to the Mormon involvement in California's Proposition 8, contributors combine sociology, political science, race and gender studies, and popular culture to track Mormonism's rapid integration into American life. The book takes a broad view of the religion's history, considering its treatment of women and African Americans and its portrayal in popular culture and the media. With essays from both Mormon and non-Mormon scholars, this anthology tells a big-picture story of a small sect that became a major player in American politics." [Author]
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A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Does Being Liberal Push Some Members Out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Joseph Smith’s Kingdom of God : The Council of Fifty and the Mormon Challenge to American Democratic Politics
Materializing Faith and Politics: The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion
Mormon-American Nationalism and the Religiopolitical Art of Jon McNaughton
Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Potomac Fever : Continuing Quest for the U. S. Presidency
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
Watchman on the Tower : Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right -
Achilles' Heel : The Vietnam War and George Romney's Bid for the Presidency, 1967 to 1968
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
"An Awful Tale of Blood" : Theocracy, Intervention, and the Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896. [by] Bigler, David L
Anxiously Engaged : Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917-45
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Test of Faith : Jane Elizabeth James and the Origin of the Utah Black Community
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Black and Mormon
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Compilation on the Negro in Mormonism
Conflict in the Quorum : Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith
Cultures in Conflict : Congregationalism, Mormonism and Schooling in Utah, 1880-1893
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Dry Kindling : A Political Profile of American Mormons
Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Evangelical Protestant Missionary Activities in Mormon Dominated Areas, 1865-1900
Ezra Taft Benson : A Biography
Following the Leader? : Mormon Voting on Ballot Propositions
Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
From War to Depression
Gethsemane and Calvary in LDS Soteriology
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from November 1869 to June 1910
Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon : Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
In the Utah Vanguard : Amy Brown Lyman as a Progressive Mormon Activist, Welfare State Builder, and Modern Woman in a Dual-Career Family
James Madison, John Witherspoon, and Oliver Cowdery : The First Amendment and the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants
Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission according to Holy Scriptures both Ancient and Modern
John Taylor's June 27, 1854, Account of the Martyrdom
Joseph Smith and the Presidency, 1844
Joseph Smith as Scientist : A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Line Upon Line : Essays on Mormon Doctrine
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Moderation in All Things : Political and Social Outlooks of Modern Urban Mormons
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism in Western Society : Three Futures
Mormonism, Philosophical Liberalism, and the Constitution
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Mormons in America : Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society
Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah
Nobody Knows : The Untold Story of Black Mormons-Script
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
On American Soil, Or, Mormonism the Mohammedanism of the West
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Out of Obscurity : The LDS Church in the Twentieth Century
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Politics : Political History
Polygamous and Monogamous Mormon Women : A Comparison
Pure Religion : The Story of Church Welfare since 1930
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
"Reasonings Sufficient" : Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the context(s) of early Mormonism
Rethinking Retrenchment : Course Corrections in the Ongoing Campaign for Respectability
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics
Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe : Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties
Shifting Ground and the Third Transformation of Mormonism
Soaring with the Gods : Early Mormons and the Eclipse of Religious Pluralism
Social Accommodation in Utah
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Susa Young Gates
Susa Young Gates : Her Life and Literary Work
The 1968 Presidential Decline of George Romney : Mormonism or Politics?
The Affair of the "Runaways" : Utah's First Encounter with the Federal Officers : Part 1
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925 : A Debate on the American Home
The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution
The Crisis of Mormon Christology : History, Progress, and Protestantism, 1880-1930
'The ERA is a Moral Issue' : The Mormon Church, LDS Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
The German-Speaking Immigration to Utah, 1850-1950
The Idea of Pre-Existence in the Development of Mormon Thought
The Integrity of Survival : A Mormon Response to Stanley Hauerwas
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Doctrine of Deity : The Roberts-Van der Donckt discussion
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Monster : Or, The Story of Mormonism
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Quest for the Presidency : From Joseph Smith to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons' War on Poverty : A History of LDS Welfare 1830-1990
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847 : Norton Jacob's Record
Theodore Roosevelt and the Latter-day Saints
The Origin of the Human Spirit in Early Mormon Thought
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine
The Scattering of the Gathered and the Gathering of the Scattered : The Mormon Diaspora in the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Seventy's Course in Theology
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Vitality of Mormonism : Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah's History
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
When Souls Had Wings : Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women of the "Mormon" Church
Writing 'Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview' (1973) : Context and Reflections, 1998
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900