Penny Tracts and Polemics: A Critical Analysis of Anti-Mormon Pamphleteering in Great Britain, 1837-1860 - Hardcover

Foster, Craig L.

9781589580053: Penny Tracts and Polemics: A Critical Analysis of Anti-Mormon Pamphleteering in Great Britain, 1837-1860

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ISBN 10: 1589580052 ISBN 13: 9781589580053

Publisher: Greg Kofford Books Inc, 2002

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About the Author:

Craig L. Foster earned a BA and MA in history and an MLIS from Brigham Young University. He works as a Research Specialist at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He resides in Layton with his wife, Suzanne, and their three children, but prefers to be at the family cabin in southern Utah hiding from the world.When he is not dreaming of another way to get back to the British Isles, Foster is actively involved in several scholarly and heritage organizations. He has published in a number of scholarly journals including BYU Studies, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Journal of Mormon History, and Utah Historical Quarterly.

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By 1860, Mormonism had already enjoyed a presence in Great Britain for over twenty years. Mormon missionaries had experienced an unprecedented success in conversions and many new converts had left Britain's shores for a new life and a new religion in the far western mountains of the American continent.With the unprecedented success of the Mormons had come tales of duplicity, priestcraft, sexual seduction and uninhibited depravity among the new religious adherents. Thousands of pamphlets with sensational titles such as, The Gates of the Mormon Hell Opened!..., The History of Fourteen Females..., The Prophets; or, Mormonism Unveiled, and, Female Life Among the Mormons were sold or given to the British populace as a way of discouraging people from joining the Mormon Church.Foster places the creation of these English anti-Mormon pamphlets in their historical context. He discusses the authors, the impact of the publications and the Mormon response. Much of what was published by the LDS British Mission was in an attempt to respond in a timely manner to polemical tracts. An essential work to understanding the history of the British Mission.

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