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"A Peculiar People": Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Hardcover – September 17, 2012

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 1st edition (September 17, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0807835714
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807835715
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn impressively-researched, sophisticated, well-written scholarly analysis of a complicated and controversial topic.
By Klaus Hansen on May 18, 2013
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A novel and refreshing, perceptive and informative account and discussion of a highly controversial topic, anti-Mormonism. While I do not agree entirely with the author's points of view, it always generates the possibility of a lively discussion that is illuminating.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderfully written
By Benjamin Fluhman on July 6, 2013
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Fantastic! Carefully and eloquently written. The best academic treatment of the subject. I cant wait for his next book! A pleasure to read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the best scholarly works on Mormonism I've read
By kathy on March 25, 2014
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This book is well done and full of useful bibliography. Does a good job remaining neutral in tone. Would recommend!
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5.0 out of 5 starsA quality book
By John E. Banks on November 13, 2012
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The book arrived as promised, and in beautiful condition. It is a quality book, well-researched and well-written. It was so nice, my daughter took it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMy religion has as much negative material printed, in ...
By Charles J. Ingerson on October 13, 2014
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My religion has as much negative material printed, in movies, shouted from various pulpits - all of the things which are encouraged by the Adversary - this allows for those seeking knowledge, truth and light an opportunity to judge for themselves - for in all of the contention and attacks nothing within either the Book of Mormon or the tenets of the Church have ever been disproved.

"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 comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious authenticity in nineteenth-century America. He argues that understanding anti-Mormonism provides critical insight into the American psyche because Mormonism became a potent symbol around which ideas about religion and the state took shape."
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