A Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 256 pp. 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.....