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The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle, Paperback / softback Book

The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle Paperback / softback

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Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker.

The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure.

T he Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing ""Mormon Problem."" On a broader scale, Kathleen Flake shows how this landmark hearing provided the occasion for the country - through its elected representatives, the daily press, citizen petitions, and social reform activism - to reconsider the scope of religious free exercise in the new century.

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.

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