A peculiar people : anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America

The Resource A peculiar people : anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America
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A peculiar people : anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America
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anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America
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J. Spencer Fluhman
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eng
Summary
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In A Peculiar People, J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious authenticity in nineteenth-century America. He argues that understanding anti-Mormonism provides critical insight into the American psyche because Mormonism became a potent symbol around which ideas about religion and the state took shape. - Jacket flap
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non fiction
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bibliography
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