Item Detail
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8031
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10
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17
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English
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Mormon and Methodist : Popular Religion in the Crucible of the Free Market
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 1994
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20
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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24-44
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In this 1993 MHA Tanner Lecture, Hatch examines the parallel origins of the Methodist and Mormon movements. The Methodists were the most revered and the Mormons were the most despised of American churches in the 1850s. He notes some of their similarities and differences and focuses particular attention on Mormonism in the movement's first fifteen years. Mormons and Methodists were strikingly alike in drawing strength from folk religious impulses, in mobilizing their people for a cause, and in being driven by a passion to convert and to proclaim the gospel. He comments on certain limitations on historical perspectives on the Mormons that "isolates much of Mormon history from the currents of contemporary scholarship on the early republic." He observes that although Mormon religious life is stable and predictable today, early Mormonism was "radical, apocalyptic, absolutist, extreme, combustible, and militant." Historians of Mormonism have not generally depicted "primitive Mormonism as a radical, apocalyptic sect, which terrified its neighbors with expansionist intent and absolutist ideology."
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