The Missouri Mormon Experience

The Missouri Mormon Experience
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The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence fed by misunderstanding and suspicion. By the end of 1838, blood was shed, and Governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that Mormons were to be â€œexterminated or driven from the state.â€
The Missouri persecutions greatly shaped Mormon faith and culture; this book reexamines Mormon-Missourian history within the sociocultural context of its time. The contributors to this volume unearth the challenges and assumptions on both sides of the conflict, as well as the cultural baggage that dictated how their actions and responses played on each other.
Shortly after Joseph Smith proclaimed Jackson County the site of the â€œNew Jerusalem,â€ Mormon settlers began moving to western Missouri, and by 1833 they made up a third of the countyâ€™s population. Mormons and Missourians did not mix well. The new settlers were relocated to Caldwell County, but tensions still escalated, leading to the three-month â€œMormon Warâ€ in 1838â€”capped by the Haunâ€™s Mill Massacre, now a seminal event in Mormon history.
These nine essays explain why Missouri had an important place in the theology of 1830s Mormonism and was envisioned as the site of a grand temple. The essays also look at interpretations of the massacre, the response of Columbiaâ€™s more moderate citizens to imprisoned church leaders (suggesting that the conflict could have been avoided if Smith had instead chosen Columbia as his new Zion), and Mormon migration through the state over the thirty years following their expulsion.
Although few Missourians today are aware of this history, many Mormons continue to be suspicious of the state despite the eventual rescinding of Governor Boggsâ€™s order. By depicting the Missouri-Mormon conflict as the result of a particularly volatile blend of cultural and social causes, this book takes a step toward understanding the motivations behind the conflict and sheds new light on the state of religious tolerance in frontier America.
Country USA
Brand Brand: University of Missouri
Manufacturer University of Missouri
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780826218872
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: University of Missouri
Manufacturer	University of Missouri
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780826218872
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Missouri Mormon Experience

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