Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
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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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, NY
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
Political Culture (United States)
History
B Public Opinion (United States) History B United States / Generals / HISTORY B Mormons Public opinion History B Utah, Mormons, Latter-day, Polygamy, Brigham Young B Mormons Political activity History |
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| Summary: | 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 in larger American histories of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven, at critical junctures, valuable to other political groups. The willingness of Americans to accept Latter-day Saints as full participants in the United States political system has ranged over time and been impelled by political expediency, granting Mormons in the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing political needs and perceptions Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Style -- Introduction. Not Exceptional, Typical, or Americanized: The Latter-day Saint Experience with American Politics -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1501716743 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781501716744 |