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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... read more
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Table of Contents edit
Prologue: On familiarity and contempt
Introduction: Religious liberty as an American problem
"Imposter" : the Mormon prophet
"Delusion" : early Mormon religiosity
"Fanaticism" : the church as (un)holy city
"Barbarism" : rhetorics of alienation
"Heresy" : Americanizing the American religion
Authors & Contributors edit
- J. Spencer Fluhman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780807835715
Page Count: 229
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780807835715
Page Count: 229
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