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Politics Of American Religious Identity

The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle

by Kathleen Flake

  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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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. T he 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.
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  • Author

    Kathleen Flake

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The University Of North Carolina Press

  • Published

    March 2004

  • Edition

    1st New edition

  • Weight

    333g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780807855010

  • ISBN-10

    0807855014

  • Eden Code

    1159816

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