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English
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"We Do Not Love War, But ..." : Mormons, the Great War, and the Crucible of Nationalism
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American Churches and the First World War
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Eugene, OR
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Pickwick Publications
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"While the First World War functioned as a patriotic litmus test for several American sub-cultures and religions, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (more commonly known as Mormons) were especially sensitive to the fierce demands of nationalism. For the Latter-day Saints, the first decades of the twentieth century were an era of intense transition. The last remnants of Mormonism's first generation, those with personal experience with its founding prophet Joseph Smith, were rapidly dying off. The church was moving beyond its charismatic roots, articulating a more consistent theology and developing a professional bureaucracy. Most significantly, having only recently discarded the practice of plural marriage and elements of theocracy, the Latter-day Saint community was struggling to shake its long-standing status as one of the nation's most pronounced pariahs. The Great War, exploding at this delicate juncture, thus highlighted the complicated relationship between the Latter-day Saint community and the broader United States, and accelerated a process by which Mormonism ultimately made peace with the nation-state." [Author]
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Personal Faith and Public Policy : Some Timely Observations on the League of Nations Controversy in Utah
"Prepared to Abide the Penalty" : Latter-day Saints and Civil Disobedience
Sheaves, Bucklers, and the State : Mormon Leaders Respond to the Dilemmas of War
"The Great World of the Spirits of the Dead" : Death, the Great War, and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic as Context for Doctrine and Covenants 138
The Mormon Church and the Spanish-American War : An End to Selective Pacifism
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
"The Wars and the Perplexities of the Nations" : Reflections on early Mormonism, violence, and the state
Zion Rising : Joseph Smith's Early Social and Political Thought