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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Patrick Q.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saints--Persecutions--Southern States--History.

Latter Day Saints.

Southern States--Church history.

Southern States.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Southern States--History.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-19-979287-9

1-282-97857-8

9786612978579

0-19-979233-X

OCLC:

702135224