"a Peculiar People": Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America by J. Spencer Fluhman

"a Peculiar People": Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

J. Spencer Fluhman

229 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In A Pecu...

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