TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fluhman,J.Spencer
TI  - A peculiar people: anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America
SN  - 9781469601595
AV  - BX8645 .F58 2012e
U1  - 289.309/034289.309034 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Latter Day Saint churches
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Denominations
KW  - United States
KW  - Church history
KW  - 19th century
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; PROLOGUE. On Familiarity and Contempt; INTRODUCTION. Religious Liberty as an American Problem; CHAPTER 1. "Impostor": The Mormon Prophet; Authenticity and Disestablishment; Interlopers in the Protestant Historical Pantheon; Counterfeiters of Faith and Currency; CHAPTER 2. "Delusion": Early Mormon Religiosity; Mormon Spirituality and the Threat of Enthusiasm; Religion, Madness, and the Search for Rational Faith; Enlightened Christianity and the Problem of Mormon Evidence; CHAPTER 3. "Fanaticism": The Church as (Un)Holy City; The Political Burden of the Mormon Gathering; The Discovery of a Mormon TheologyThe Politics of Expulsion; CHAPTER 4. "Barbarism": Rhetorics of Alienation; Empire(s) in the West; The Problem of Mormon Whiteness; Mormon Women, the Ungrateful Objects of American Pity; CHAPTER 5. "Heresy": Americanizing the American Religion; Mormonism in the Crowd of World Religions; Textbook Mormons and the Weight of Mormon History; Conclusion: Mormonism (Almost) Defanged; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
N2  - 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
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