Convicting the Mormons
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
By Janiece Johnson
234 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 27 halftones
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7353-0
Published: May 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7352-3
Published: May 2023 -
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Published: April 2023
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Religious historian Janiece Johnson analyzes how sensational media attention used the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to enflame public sentiment and provoke legal action against Latter-day Saints. Ministers, novelists, entertainers, cartoonists, and federal officials followed suit, spreading anti-Mormon sentiment to collectively convict the Mormon religion itself. This troubling episode in American religious history sheds important light on the role of media and popular culture in provoking religious intolerance that continues to resonate in the present.
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Janiece Johnson is lecturer at Brigham Young University.
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"Johnson's authorial voice and absolute command of the primary sources make this book an indispensable resource for historians examining the aftermath and American cultural perception of Mountain Meadows."—Patrick Mason, Utah State University
"This book is fantastic! Rather than retreading the specifics of the Mountain Meadows Massacre itself, Johnson is concerned with what the event became in popular consciousness—making her study unique and refreshing. It makes a significant contribution to the fields of Mormon studies, nineteenth-century American history, and American religious studies."—Elizabeth Fenton, University of Vermont