Migration, Resistance, and Counter-Hegemony: Mormonism’s Final Attempt at Securing the Kingdom

Authors

Scott Killian Thomas, Brigham Young University
Dr. Grant R. Underwood, Brigham Young University

Keywords

migration, resistance, counter-hegemony, Mormon studies, religion

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

Abstract

Students of America’s western history are familiar with the region’s most dominant ethnic group, the Mormons, which migrated in mass during the middle of the nineteenth-century from Illinois due to external pressures. This migration to the West has received much attention both academically and institutionally and is a well-known historical event. After a handful of turbulent decades in the Great Basin region a much more complex, arduous, and strategic exodus to Mexico occurred in 1885 which has not been as well documented (in published or unpublished sources) as the previous one. Unlike the move to the Great Basin (where the entire Church migrated to the West) this migration was selective in nature and transpired for different reasons.

Recommended Citation

Thomas, Scott Killian and Underwood, Dr. Grant R. (2013) "Migration, Resistance, and Counter-Hegemony: Mormonism’s Final Attempt at Securing the Kingdom," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 295.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/295