Research Catalog

Title

The Mormon menace : violence and anti-Mormonism in the postbellum South / Patrick Q. Mason.

Author

Mason, Patrick Q.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Description

xi, 252 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Mason demonstrates how anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest grounds for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marriage and the American republic.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Southern States > History
• Geschichte 1865-1900
• Latter Day Saints > History. > Southern States
• Southern States > Church history

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The lustful lout : the murder of Joseph Standing -- Rumors, religious competition, and community violence : the Cane Creek massacre -- This congregation of sensualists : polygamy in the Southern mind -- The Second Reconstruction : Southern anti-polygamy and the limits of religious freedom -- The Mormon monster : political and religious aspects of Southern anti-Mormonism -- Patterns and context of anti-Mormon violence -- The blood of martyrs : Southern anti-Mormonism and LDS identity -- Religious minorities and the problem of peculiar peoplehood.

ISBN

• 9780199740024 (hardcover)
• 019974002X (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2010012907

OCLC

• 591788290
• SCSB-10593506

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library