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The Reed Smoot Hearings

By: Michael Harold Paulos - editor, Konden Smith Hansen - editor
Narrated by: John Burlinson
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This book examines the hearings that followed Mormon apostle Reed Smoot’s 1903 election to the US Senate and the subsequent protests and petitioning efforts from mainstream Christian ministries disputing Smoot’s right to serve as a senator. Exploring how religious and political institutions adapted and shapeshifted in response to larger societal and ecclesiastical trends, The Reed Smoot Hearings offers a broader exploration of secularism during the Progressive Era and puts the Smoot hearings in context with the ongoing debate about the constitutional definition of marriage.

The work adds new insights into the role religion and the secular played in the shaping of US political institutions and national policies. Chapters also look at the history of anti-polygamy laws, the persistence of post-1890 plural marriage, the continuation of anti-Mormon sentiment, the intimacies and challenges of religious privatization, the dynamic of federal power on religious reform, and the more intimate role individuals played in effecting these institutional and national developments.

The Smoot hearings stand as an important case study that highlights the paradoxical history of religious liberty in America and the principles of exclusion and coercion that history is predicated on. The Reed Smoot Hearings will be of significant interest to students and scholars of Mormon, western, American, and religious history.

The book is published by Utah State University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2021 University Press of Colorado (P)2022 Redwood Audiobooks
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“This remarkable volume deepens our understanding of this watershed moment...” (Randall Balmer, Dartmouth University)

"This volume of vividly imagined, deeply researched essays on the Reed Smoot hearings is a boon to scholars, students, and lay readers..." (Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University)

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