The Politics of American Religious Identity
The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
Kathleen Flake
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2005
Pages: 256
Subject: Law, Religion
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807863541
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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.