The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon ApostleUniv of North Carolina Press, 15.12.2005 - 256 Seiten 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. |
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2 The Man Who Served Two Masters | 34 |
3 Subordinating to the State | 56 |
4 The Common Good | 82 |
5 RePlacing Memory | 109 |
6 Defining Denominational Citizenship | 138 |
Epilogue | 159 |
Notes | 179 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 231 |
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