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A Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
By Fluhman, J. Spencer
- ISBN
- 978-0-80783-357-5
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina Press
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Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Mormons and Mormonism
Modern Mormons work hard to promote themselves as Christians and über-Americans. But they have had to work against deeply entrenched prejudice and stereotypes that linger from the 19th century, as Fluhman (history, Brigham Young Univ.) ably demonstrates. Mormons themselves have accepted their public image as “a peculiar people”—separate from others, but not too separate or weird. Fluhman is interested in how othe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
