Mormonism & America

Book of the Day: The Politics of American Religious Identity: Senator Reed Smoot, by Author: Kathleen Flake. Publisher: University of North Carolina Press.

For all of America’s 200+ years of history, religion and politics have played an intricate and interesting dance. Where does one stop and the other begin? That’s not always easy to discern - although they should ideally be separate, many individuals don’t distinguish between them. This has led to a number of unfortunate episodes, including a great deal of mistreatment of Mormons who themselves have not distinguished between religion and politics.

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