The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
by Patrick Q. Mason
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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.Tags
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Patrick Q. Mason is associate professor of religion, chair of the religion department, and Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is author of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South and coeditor of War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives.
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- 2011
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History
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- 289.3 — Religion Christian denominations Other denominations and sects Mormonism
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- BX8615 .S88 .M37 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Protestantism Other Protestant denominations Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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