Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

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Introduction, by Randall Balmer and Jana Riess
Part I: Origins and Tensions
1. Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions, by Richard Lyman Bushman
2. Unpopular Sovereignty: Brigham Young and the U.S. Government, 1847–1877, by John G. Turner
3. Polygamy in the Nation's Capitol: Protestant Women and the 1899 Campaign Against B. H. Roberts, by Jana Riess
4. Eternal Progression: Mormonism and American Progressivism, by Matthew Bowman
Part II: Shifting Alliances
5. Ezra Taft Benson and the Conservative Turn of "Those Amazing Mormons," by Jan Shipps
6. Testimony and Theology: The Mormon Struggle with America's Civil Religion, by Russell Arben Fox
7. Chosen Land, Chosen People: Religious and American Exceptionalism Among the Mormons, by Philip L. Barlow
8. Like Father, Unlike Son: The Governors Romney, the Kennedy Paradigm, and the Mormon Question, by Randall Balmer
Part III: Into the Twenty-first Century
9. A Politically Peculiar People: How Mormons Moved into and Then out of the Political Mainstream, by David E. Campbell, Christopher F. Karpowitz and J. Quin Monson
10. "Twice-told Tale": Telling Two Histories of Mormon-Black Relations During the 2012 Presidential Election, by Max Perry Mueller
11. Mormon Women Talk Politics, by Claudia L. Bushman
12. On the "Underground": What the Mormon "Yes on 8" Campaign Reveals About the Future of Mormons in American Political Life, by Joanna Brooks
13. Mitt, Mormonism, and the Media: An Unfamiliar Faith Takes the Stage in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, by Peggy Fletcher Stack
List of Contributors
Index