A Peculiar People: The Mormon Lens on American History
A Peculiar People: The Mormon Lens on American History

‘By Jennifer Schuessler – For a century and a half, Mormonism has been something of a paradox in the history of the American West: passionately argued about by the church’s adherents and detractors, but largely ignored by professional scholars unsure of what to make of the religion Joseph Smith founded in 1830 or the communities created by what Mormon scripture itself described as a “peculiar people.”’

Do you think that Mormonism can become as ubiquitous as canonical Christianity?

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