The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (Religion in America) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (Religion in America) Book

Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people--the "viper on the hearth"--who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social "Other."Read More

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  • 0195101839
  • 9780195101836
  • Terryl Givens
  • 8 May 1997
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 232
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