Contingent Citizens : : Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture / / ed. by Keith A. Erekson, Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers.
Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the 1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality—the editors and contributors place Mormons i...
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Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Style
- Introduction. Not Exceptional, Typical, or Americanized: The Latter-day Saint Experience with American Politics
- Part I. Authority and Mobilization
- Introduction
- 1. “Some Little Necromancy”: Politics, Religion, and the Mormons, 1829–1838
- 2. “Many Think This Is a Hoax”: The Newspaper Response to Joseph Smith’s 1844 Presidential Campaign
- 3. Precarious Protestant Democracy: Mormon and Catholic Conceptions of Democratic Rule in the 1840s
- 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
- Part II. Power and Sovereignty
- Introduction
- 5. “The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard”: The Black Hawk and Mormon Wars in the Construction of Illinois Political Culture, 1832–1846
- 6. “Like a Swarm of Locusts”: Perceptions of Mormon Geopolitical Power in a Non-US West, 1844–1848
- 7. “In the Style of an Independent Sovereign”: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Mormon Martial Law Proclamations in American Political Culture
- 8. Political Perceptions of Mormon Polygamy and the Struggle for Utah Statehood, 1847–1896
- 9. A Snake in the Sugar: Magazines, the Hardwick Committee, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1910–1911
- Part III. Unity and Nationalism
- Introduction
- 10. “Rather Than Recognize This Wretched Imposture”: Edward Everett, Rational Religion, and the Territory of Utah/Deseret
- 11. Ambiguous Allegiances and Divided Sovereignty: Mormons and Other Uncertain Americans in Nineteenth- Century North America
- 12. Mormons at Midcentury: “Crushed Politically, Curtailed Economically,” but Winning “Universal Respect for Their Devotion and Achievements”
- 13. The Historic Conflicts of Our Time: Ezra Taft Benson and Twentieth-Century Media Representations of Latter-day Saints
- Notes
- About the Contributors
- Index