Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
CONTINGENT CITIZENS -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Style -- Introduction. Not Exceptional, Typical, or Americanized: The Latter-day Saint Experience with American Politics, Keith A. Erekson -- Part I: Authority and Mobilization -- 1. "Some Little Necromancy": Politi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Contingent citizens] (2021) (Campbell, David E., 1971 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mormon Church
/ Religion
/ Politics
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781501716744 |
| Summary: | CONTINGENT CITIZENS -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Style -- Introduction. Not Exceptional, Typical, or Americanized: The Latter-day Saint Experience with American Politics, Keith A. Erekson -- Part I: Authority and Mobilization -- 1. "Some Little Necromancy": Politics, Religion, and the Mormons, 1829-1838, Adam Jortner -- 2. "Many Think This Is a Hoax": The Newspaper Response to Joseph Smith's 1844 Presidential Campaign, Spencer W. McBride -- 3. Precarious Protestant Democracy: Mormon and Catholic Conceptions of Democratic Rule in the 1840s, Benjamin E. Park -- 4. "The Woman's Movement Has Discovered a New Enemy-the Mormon Church": Church Mobilization against the ERA and the NOW's Countermobilization in Utah, Natalie K. Rose -- Part II: Power and Sovereignty -- 5. "The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard": The Black Hawk and Mormon Wars in the Construction of Illinois Political Culture, 1832-1846, Amy S. Greenberg -- 6. "Like a Swarm of Locusts": Perceptions of Mormon Geopolitical Power in a Non-US West, 1844-1848, Thomas Richards Jr. -- 7. "In the Style of an Independent Sovereign": Mid-Nineteenth-Century Mormon Martial Law Proclamations in American Political Culture, Brent M. Rogers -- 8. Political Perceptions of Mormon Polygamy and the Struggle for Utah Statehood, 1847-1896, Stephen Eliot Smith -- 9. A Snake in the Sugar: Magazines, the Hardwick Committee, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1910-1911, Matthew C. Godfrey -- Part III: Unity and Nationalism -- 10. "Rather Than Recognize This Wretched Imposture": Edward Everett, Rational Religion, and the Territory of Utah/Deseret, Matthew Mason -- 11. Ambiguous Allegiances and Divided Sovereignty: Mormons and Other Uncertain Americans in Nineteenth-Century North America, Rachel St. John. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1501716751 |