When Joseph Smith Met Martin Van Buren: Mormonism and the Politics of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America
In the nineteenth century, the Mormons were a minority religious group living on the fringes of the United States in both a geographic and social sense. Yet, in the twenty-first century, historians are increasingly realizing that the history of this marginal religious “other” sheds a great deal of l...
| Subtitles: | Forum on Christian Minorities in the Early American Republic |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Church history
Year: 2016, Volume: 85, Issue: 1, Pages: 150-158 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Smith, Joseph 1805-1844
/ Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862
/ USA
/ Religious freedom
/ Geschichte 1839
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KDG Free church |
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| Summary: | In the nineteenth century, the Mormons were a minority religious group living on the fringes of the United States in both a geographic and social sense. Yet, in the twenty-first century, historians are increasingly realizing that the history of this marginal religious “other” sheds a great deal of light on the American past broadly conceived. This essay briefly describes an important moment in early Mormon history that illuminates our developing understanding of religious liberty in the early American republic, and the political obstacles Americans outside mainstream protestant Christianity faced in their efforts to obtain equal treatment under the law as American citizens. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640715001390 |