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" The politics of American religious identity : "
Kathleen Flake
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BL
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635727
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Flake, Kathleen
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The politics of American religious identity : : the seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon apostle /\ Kathleen Flake
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2004
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xiii, 238 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0807828319
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: 0807855014 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index
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The American idea of a church -- The man who served two masters -- Subordinating to the state -- The common good -- Re-placing memory -- Defining denominational citizenship
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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
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Smoot, Reed,1862-1941
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United States.-- History-- 20th century
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Mormon Church-- Apostles-- History-- 20th century
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Legislators-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Christianity and politics-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Polygamy-- Religious aspects-- Mormon Church-- History of doctrines-- 20th century
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328.73/092
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BX8695.S74F57 2004
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