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

by Peter Coviello

Book Overview

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 dissident sect to their renunciation of polygamy at century's end.

Over these turbulent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647433X
• ISBN13: 9780226474335
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"