The Viper on the Hearth

Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-510183-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Reihe: Religion in America

Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people - the `viper on the hearth' - who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the
sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social `Other'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Givens, Terryl L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften