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English
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Converting the Saints : A Study of Religious Rivalry in America
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books
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"Converting the Saints focuses on American religious history and particularly on the early-twentieth-century Protestant missions to Utah to convert Mormons to traditional Christian belief. After the Mormons acquiesced to federal laws against polygamy and federal pressure to secularize Utah’s governance, the religious conflict over Mormonism’s Christian legitimacy remained unresolved. This was a religious conflict that, in true American style, was engaged as a contest of persuasion held on the figurative battlefield for the human heart. Both rivals understood this, and while unsettled by their mutual opponent’s aggressive criticisms, they did not think it wrong or even strange for their rival to engage them. Centering on the cases of three Protestant missions in Utah, this study explores the crucial understanding at the center of the American experiment : that persuasive contestation over religion, ideology, or founding principles is normal in our secular State, and even healthy for free citizens to flourish within a diverse society." [Book Abstract]
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After 150 Years : The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Clay County, Missouri, from 1833 to 1837
Ambassador to the Saints
Approaching Zion
'Are You That Damned Presbyterian Devil?' The Evolution of an Anti-Mormon Story
Banishing the Cross : The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo
B. H. Roberts and the Woodruff Manifesto
Brigham Young and the Indians
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Changed Faces : The Official LDS Position on Polygamy, 1890-1990
Claiming Christ : A Mormon-Evangelical Debate
Defender of the Faith : The B. H. Roberts Story
Defense of the Faith and the Saints
Defining the Mormon Doctrine of Deity
Difference and Otherness : Mormonism and the American Religious Mainstream
Dissent and Authority in Two Latter-Day Saint Traditions
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Evangelical Protestant Missionary Activities in Mormon Dominated Areas, 1865-1900
Exploring Mormon Thought: Of God and Gods, Volume 3
Female Life Among the Mormons ; A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience
Franklin Spencer Spalding : An Episcopal Observer of Mormonism
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
Grace and Works in Martin Luther and Joseph Smith
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
How Wide the Divide? : A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation
Intellectuals in Mormon History : An Update
In the Presence of the Past : Continuity and Change in Twentieth-Century Mormonism
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
'Is Mormonism Christian?' Reflections on a Complicated Question
Joseph Smith and Modern Mormonism : Orthodoxy, Neoorthodoxy, Tension, and Tradition
Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator : An Inquiry
Joseph Smith Jr. : Reappraisals After Two Centuries
Joseph Smith's 19 July 1840 Discourse
Let Contention Cease : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Mormon Doctrine
Mormonism and Early Christianity
Mormonism in Conflict : The Nauvoo Years
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism : The Islam of America
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy : A Crisis Theology
Mormon Polygamy : A History
National Perceptions of Utah's Statehood
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
One Hundred Years of Mormonism
Open Hand and Mailed Fist : Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-52
Patterns of Religious Affiliation : A Study of Lifelong Mormons, Mormon Converts, and Former Mormons
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Promises Made to the Fathers : Mormon Covenant Organization
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Reed Smoot : Apostle in Politics
Reflections on Mormonism : Judaeo-Christian Parallels
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Strangers Once More : Patterns of Disaffiliation from Mormonism
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment : Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives
The Early Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
The Essential Orson Pratt
The Idea of Pre-Existence in the Development of Mormon Thought
The King Follett Discourse : Textual History and Criticism
The Latter-day Saints : A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Mormon Concept of God : a Philosophical Analysis
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Nation and the American Empire
The Origin and History of the Mormons : With Reflections on the Beginnings of Islam and Christianity
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Truth, The Way, The Life : An Elementary Treatise on Theology
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Toward a Reconstruction of Mormon and Indian Relations, 1847-1877
Two Restoration Traditions : Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century
Utah : A Centennial History
Utah's Black Hawk War
Victorian Pornographic Imagery in Anti-Mormon Literature
"We Latter-day Saints are Methodists" : The Influence of Methodism on Early Mormon Religiosity