Title:
The Mormon menace : violence and anti-Mormonism in the postbellum South / Patrick Q. Mason.
Author:
Mason, Patrick Q.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Call Number:
BX8615 .S88 M37 2011
ISBN:
9780199740024
Physical Description:
xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
The lustful lout : the murder of Joseph Standing -- Rumors, religious competition, and community violence : the Cane Creek massacre -- This congregation of sensualists : polygamy in the Southern mind -- The Second Reconstruction : Southern anti-polygamy and the limits of religious freedom -- The Mormon monster : political and religious aspects of Southern anti-Mormonism -- Patterns and context of anti-Mormon violence -- The blood of martyrs : Southern anti-Mormonism and LDS identity -- Religious minorities and the problem of peculiar peoplehood.
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