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English
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Mormonism in America: Itinerary to Allegiance from Joseph Smith to Mitt Romney
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Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions, and Allegiance
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Boston, MA
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Brill Publishing
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441-460
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"'A Mormon in the White House?' was a recurrent phrase beginning in 2006 when Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts, and unwavering member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormon Church), announced his presidential ambitions. In many cases, the phrase conveyed a mixture of awe and of fear to think that a Mormon was a serious contender to the White House. It revealed as well what people thought about Romney and his religion: (1) that Mormons were polygamists who blindly obeyed their ecclesiastical leaders; (2) that they were not ‘Protestant Christians’, which therefore precluded them from vying for the highest office in the land; (3) that they rather belonged to the margin of American society, some place where the clock had stopped ticking since the nineteenth century. The paradox, we shall see, is that Mitt Romney became a presidential candidate because of Mormonism, a religion that has moved across America and which has a culture of engagement with the rest of the nation. That culture has taken many forms over the years. On the other hand, we will see that Romney’s religion has illustrated the encounter of defiance, followed by what Max Weber (1946: 78) calls 'legitimate violence' by ‘the State’, and by ‘established’ groups, demanding allegiance and conformity. Hence, beyond Mormonism, this chapter’s aim is also to illustrate American society’s power to marginalise non-conformist religions, to conform, and to eventually integrate them." [Author]
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/byu/reader.action?docID=4540521&ppg=459
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History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Independence, Missouri, and the Mormons, 1827-1833
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Kingdom of the Saints : The Story of Brigham Young and the Mormons
Mormonism and the Avoidance of Sectarian Stagnation : A Study of Church, Sect, and Incipient Nationality
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The Campaign and the Kingdom : The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith's Presidential Campaign
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Mormons in Politics : The First Hundred Years
The Mormon Theocracy
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Two Rare Missouri Documents
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900