Title: A peculiar people
Description: Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In A Peculiar People, J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious authenticity in nineteenth-century America. He argues that understanding anti-Mormonism provides critical insight into the American psyche because Mormonism became a potent symbol around which ideas about religion and the state took shape. - Jacket flap.
Subjects: Controversial literature, Mormon Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church history, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, History, Church music, church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, United states, church history
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century