“A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Spencer Fluhman's book is one of the latest offerings in a maturing field of Mormon studies that transcends parochial histories to engage with and contribute to important conversations in American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Indeed, A Peculiar People tells us as much or more...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 398-400 |
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| Summary: | Spencer Fluhman's book is one of the latest offerings in a maturing field of Mormon studies that transcends parochial histories to engage with and contribute to important conversations in American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Indeed, A Peculiar People tells us as much or more about America than it does about Mormonism per se. Like the work of Terryl Givens, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Kathleen Flake, and myself, Fluhman's eyes are trained primarily not on Mormons but on what their “orthodox” antagonists said about them and did to them. Mormonism appears here, then, more as an object than a subject. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu027 |