The Politics Of American Religious Identity: The Seating Of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
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The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure. The Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing "Mormon Problem." On a broader scale, Kathleen Flake shows how this landmark hearing provided the occasion for the country--through its elected representatives, the daily press, citizen petitions, and social reform activism--to reconsider the scope of religious free exercise in the new century.Flake contends that the Smoot hearing was the forge in which the Latter-day Saints, the Protestants, and the Senate hammered out a model for church-state relations, shaping for a new generation of non-Protestant and non-Christian Americans what it meant to be free and religious. In addition, she discusses the Latter-day Saints' use of narrative and collective memory to retain their religious identity even as they changed to meet the nation's demands.
Specification of The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
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Author | Kathleen Flake |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-10 | 0807855014 |
ISBN-13 | 9780807855010 |
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication Year | 2004 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 6.4 inch. |
Length | 0.6 inch. |
Width | 9.2 inch. |
Weight | 0.9 pounds. |
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