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Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism

by Peter Coviello

From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexually, even racially––by the extravagances of belief they called “religion.” Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and practice, tracking the Saints from their emergence as a diss

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780226474168