God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: FAITH AND CONFLICT IN THE AMERICAN WEST
by Todd M. Kerstetter
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Author: Todd M. KerstetterEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-20
ISBN: 0252030389
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Summary of God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: FAITH AND CONFLICT IN THE AMERICAN WEST
While many studies of religion in the West have focused on the region's diversity, freedom, and individualism, Todd M. Kerstetter brings together the three most glaring exceptions to those rules to explore the boundaries of tolerance as enforced by society and the U.S. government. "God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land" analyzes Mormon history from the Utah Expedition and Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 through subsequent decades of federal legislative and judicial actions aimed at ending polygamy and limiting church power.It also focuses on the Lakota Ghost Dancers and the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota (1890), and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas (1993). In sharp contrast to the mythic image of the West as the "Land of the Free," these three tragic episodes reveal the West as a cultural battleground - in the words of one reporter, "a collision of guns, God, and government." Kerstetter asks important questions about what happens when groups with a deep trust in their differing inner truths meet, and he exposes the religious motivations behind government policies that worked to alter Mormonism and extinguish Native American beliefs.General Books
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