Review: John Corrigan. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Authors

Andrea Radke-Moss

Keywords

religious intolerance, America, Latter-day Saints

Abstract

John Corrigan begins Religious Intolerance, America, and the World with the premise that the American past has been more characterized by religious intolerance and persecution than by tolerance and harmony, particularly of marginal groups. Even as Americans have “congratulated themselves” (2) on religious freedom as an exceptional ideal in the early republic, “religious violence came early and often as colonial New Englanders executed a series of devastating military campaigns against Native Americans” (3). Protestants later turned their persecutions to other undesirable religious minorities, including Catholics and Latter-day Saints.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Radke-Moss, Andrea (2023) "Review: John Corrigan. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 10: No. 1, Article 22.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol10/iss1/22