The Politics of American Religious Identity - 9780807855010
Un libro in lingua di Kathleen Flake edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2004
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Politics of American Religious Identity
- Sottotitolo: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Kathleen Flake
- Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Collana: Univ of North Carolina Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Marzo '04
- Genere: LAW
- Argomenti : Christiantiy and politics Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints History 20th century Christianity and politics United States History 20th century Legislators United States History 20th century
- Pagine: 256
- Peso gr: 362
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0807855014
- EAN-13: 9780807855010