Fluhman, J. Spencer. <br/><br/>
A Peculiar People  Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America.  [electronic resource] : 

 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  2012. 
 - 1 online resource (240 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Contents; PROLOGUE. On Familiarity and Contempt; INTRODUCTION. Religious Liberty as an American Problem; CHAPTER 1. "Impostor": The Mormon Prophet; Authenticity and Disestablishment; Interlopers in the Protestant Historical Pantheon; Counterfeiters of Faith and Currency; CHAPTER 2. "Delusion": Early Mormon Religiosity; Mormon Spirituality and the Threat of Enthusiasm; Religion, Madness, and the Search for Rational Faith; Enlightened Christianity and the Problem of Mormon Evidence; CHAPTER 3. "Fanaticism": The Church as (Un)Holy City; The Political Burden of the Mormon Gathering. The Discovery of a Mormon TheologyThe Politics of Expulsion; CHAPTER 4. "Barbarism": Rhetorics of Alienation; Empire(s) in the West; The Problem of Mormon Whiteness; Mormon Women, the Ungrateful Objects of American Pity; CHAPTER 5. "Heresy": Americanizing the American Religion; Mormonism in the Crowd of World Religions; Textbook Mormons and the Weight of Mormon History; Conclusion: Mormonism (Almost) Defanged; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469601595 1469601591 9780807837405 0807837407 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt6319k  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Controversial literature.<br/>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.<br/>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800 - 1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mormon Church--Controversial literature.<br/>Mormon Church--History.<br/>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints--Controversial literature.<br/>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--History.<br/>Mormon Church--Controversial literature.<br/>Mormon Church--History.<br/>United States--Church history--19th century.<br/>RELIGION--Christianity--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)<br/>Mormon Church.<br/>RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Church history--19th century.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Church history.<br/>Controversial literature.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX8645 .F58 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>289.309/034  289.309034