Review: Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson, eds. Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Authors

R. Marie Griffith

Keywords

religion, politics, history, Mormonism, scholarship

Abstract

There has been no shortage of books devoted to studying the intersections of religion and politics across US history. And the interest has cut across several scholarly fields: no more is religion the possession only or even predominantly of religious studies and anthropology, nor politics sequestered within the high and inward-looking walls of political science. Social history, a guild whose members once exuded a kind of deathly allergy to religion, has perhaps seen the greatest transformation; indeed, the field of history broadly speaking has experienced an unexpected gush of attention to religion and politics. Some of the historians new to this area would do well to consult subfields where there already has long been outstanding historical work on religion, a prime example of such a subfield being, of course, the history of Mormonism.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Griffith, R. Marie (2022) "Review: Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson, eds. Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 16.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol9/iss1/16