When Joseph Smith Met Martin Van Buren: Mormonism and the Politics of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	McBride, Spencer W.
Copyright Year	2016
Description	In the nineteenth century, the Mormons were a minority religious group living on the fringes of the United States in both a geographic and social sense. Yet, in the twenty-first century, historians are increasingly realizing that the history of this marginal religious “other” sheds a great deal of light on the American past broadly conceived. This essay briefly describes an important moment in early Mormon history that illuminates our developing understanding of religious liberty in the early American republic, and the political obstacles Americans outside mainstream protestant Christianity faced in their efforts to obtain equal treatment under the law as American citizens.
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Ending Page	158
Page Count	9
Starting Page	150
ISSN	00096407
e-ISSN	17552613
DOI	10.1017/s0009640715001390
Journal	Church history
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	85
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2016-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Church history Religious Liberty
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Religious Studies History Cultural Studies