{"product_id":"the-politics-of-american-religious-identity-the-seating-of-senator-reed-smoot-mormon-apostle-0807855014-used","title":"The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0807855014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flake, Kathleen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 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. The 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67636005962016,"sku":"USED0807855014","price":46.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61VUZMkzCVL.jpg?v=1791115448","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-politics-of-american-religious-identity-the-seating-of-senator-reed-smoot-mormon-apostle-0807855014-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}