Anti-Mormonism and the question of religious authenticity in antebellum America

When antebellum anti-Mormons took up their pens to thwart the Mormon "menace," they not only rehearsed various critiques of Mormonism, they participated in a larger conversation about the place of religion in the nation and the ways citizens might separate "real" religion from th...

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Main Author: Fluhman, J. Spencer (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Creighton University 2005
In: The journal of religion & society
Year: 2005, Volume: 7
Further subjects:B 1805-1844
B Mormons; United States
B Antimormonism
B United States; Civilization
B Deception
B Joseph
B Smith
B Church-sect typology
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Summary:When antebellum anti-Mormons took up their pens to thwart the Mormon "menace," they not only rehearsed various critiques of Mormonism, they participated in a larger conversation about the place of religion in the nation and the ways citizens might separate "real" religion from the religiously inauthentic. While Protestants of the period assumed "objective" descriptions of various religious groups might calm a vexed post-disestablishment religious scene, their incorporation of a long-standing polemical strategy that sought to expose religious impostors illuminated an array of conflicting attachments and various cultural tensions that attended the new republic’s "free market" in churches.
ISSN:1522-5658
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10504/64430