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No Place for Saints

Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America

By: Adam Jortner

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No Place for Saints

Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America

By: Adam Jortner

The emergence of the Mormon church is arguably the most radical event in American religious history. How and why did so many Americans flock to this new religion, and why did so many other Americans seek to silence or even destroy that movement? Winner of the MHA Best Book Award by the Mormon History Association Mormonism exploded across America in 1830, and America exploded right back. By 1834, the new religion had been mocked, harassed, and finally expelled from its new settlements in Missouri. Why did this religion generate such anger? And what do these early conflicts say about our struggles with religious liberty today? In No Place for Saints, the first stand-alone history of the Mormon expulsion from Jackson County and the genesis of Mormonism, Adam Jortner chronicles how Latter-day Saints emerged and spread their faith—and how anti-Mormons tried to stop them. Early on, Jortner explains, anti-Mormonism thrived on gossip, conspiracies, and outright fables about what Mormons were up to. Anti-Mormons came to believe Mormons were a threat to democracy, and anyone who claimed revelation from God was an enemy of the people with no rights to citizenship. By 1833, Jackson County's anti-Mormons demanded all Saints leave the county. When Mormons refused—citing the First Amendment—the anti-Mormons attacked their homes, held their leaders at gunpoint, and performed one of America's most egregious acts of religious cleansing. From the beginnings of Mormonism in the 1820s to their expansion and expulsion in 1834, Jortner discusses many of the most prominent issues and events in Mormon history. He touches on the process of revelation, the relationship between magic and LDS practice, the rise of the priesthood, the questions surrounding Mormonism and African Americans, the internal struggles for leadership of the young church, and how American law shaped this American religion. Throughout, No Place for Saints shows how Mormonism—and the violent backlash against it—fundamentally reshaped the American religious and legal landscape. Ultimately, the book is a story of Jacksonian America, of how democracy can fail religious freedom, and a case study in popular politics as America entered a great age of religion and violence.

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Blood from the Sky

Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic

By: Adam Jortner

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Blood from the Sky

Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic

By: Adam Jortner

In the decades following the Revolution, the supernatural exploded across the American landscape—fabulous reports of healings, exorcisms, magic, and angels crossed the nation. Under First Amendment protections, new sects based on such miracles proliferated. At the same time, Enlightenment philosophers and American founders explicitly denied the possibility of supernatural events, dismissing them as deliberate falsehoods—and, therefore, efforts to suborn the state. Many feared that belief in the supernatural itself was a danger to democracy. In this way, miracles became a political problem and prompted violent responses in the religious communities of Prophetstown, Turtle Creek, and Nauvoo. In Blood from the Sky, Adam Jortner argues that the astonishing breadth and extent of American miracles and supernaturalism following independence derived from Enlightenment ideas about proof and sensory evidence, offering a chance at certain belief in an uncertain religious climate. Jortner breaks new ground in explaining the rise of radical religion in antebellum America, revisiting questions of disenchantment, modernity, and religious belief in a history of astounding events that—as early Americans would have said—needed to be seen to be believed.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813939593

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A Promised Land

Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

By: Adam Jortner

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A Promised Land

Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

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A Promised Land illuminates the key role that Jewish Americans and Judaism played in the country's founding, engaging the larger question of guaranteeing religious freedom at a critical juncture in American history.

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Oxford University Press

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0197536867

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The Gods of Prophetstown

The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier

By: Adam Jortner

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The Gods of Prophetstown

The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier

By: Adam Jortner

An original, readable narrative of the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe and the role of religion in the history of the American West

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A Promised Land

Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

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Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

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Blood from the Sky

Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic

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Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic

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The Vegetarian Crusade

By: Adam D. Shprintzen

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The Vegetarian Crusade

By: Adam D. Shprintzen

Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

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UNC Press Books

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146960891X

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Parading Patriotism

Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826–1876

By: Adam J. Criblez

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Parading Patriotism

Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826–1876

By: Adam J. Criblez

Parading Patriotism covers a critical fifty-year period in the nineteenth-century when the American nation was starting to expand and cities across the Midwest were experiencing rapid urbanization and industrialization. Historian Adam Criblez offers a unique and fascinating study of five midwestern cities—Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Indianapolis—and how celebrations of the Fourth of July in each of them formed a microcosm for the country as a whole in defining and establishing patriotic nationalism and new conceptions of what it was like to be an American. Criblez exposes a rich tapestry of mid-century midwestern social and political life by focusing on the nationalistic rites of Independence Day. He shows how the celebratory façade often masked deep-seated tensions involving such things as race, ethnicity, social class, political party, religion, and even gender. Urban celebrations in these cities often turned violent, with incidents marked by ethnic conflict, racial turmoil, and excessive drunkenness. The celebration of Independence Day became an important political, cultural, and religious ritual on social calendars throughout this time period, and Criblez illustrates how the Midwest adapted cultural developments from outside the region—brought by European immigrants and westward migrants from eastern states like New York, Virginia, and Massachusetts. The concepts of American homegrown nationalism were forged in the five highlighted midwestern cities, as the new country came to terms with its own independence and how historical memory and elements of zealous and belligerent patriotism came together to construct a new and unique national identity. This ground-breaking book draws on both unpublished sources (including diaries, manuscript collections, and journals) and copious but under-utilized print resources from the region (newspapers, periodicals, travelogues, and pamphlets) to uncover the roots of how the Fourth of July holiday is celebrated today. Criblez's insightful book shows how political independence and republican government was promoted through rituals and ceremonies that were forged in the wake of this historical moment.

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Cornell University Press

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No Place for Saints

Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America

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Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America

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The Gods of Prophetstown

The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier

By: Adam Jortner

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The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier

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An original, readable narrative of the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe and the role of religion in the history of the American West

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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatres of War

By: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatres of War

By: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.

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University of Alabama Press

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Book's by Adam Jortner

No Place for Saints

No Place for Saints

Blood from the Sky

Blood from the Sky

A Promised Land

A Promised Land

The Gods of Prophetstown

The Gods of Prophetstown

A Promised Land

A Promised Land

Blood from the Sky

Blood from the Sky

The Vegetarian Crusade

The Vegetarian Crusade

Parading Patriotism

Parading Patriotism

No Place for Saints

No Place for Saints

The Gods of Prophetstown

The Gods of Prophetstown

Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

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