Praying with one eye open : Mormons and murder in nineteenth-century Appalachian Georgia /
Praying with one eye open :: Mormons and murder in nineteenth-century Appalachian Georgia /

In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of twelve men. The church refused to bury the missionary in Georgia soil; instead, he...

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1. Verfasser: Engel, Mary Ella, 1953- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Schlagworte:
Standing, Joseph, > 1854-1879.
Standing, Joseph, > 1854-1879
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Georgia > History > 19th century.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1800-1899
Latter Day Saint churches > Georgia > History > 19th century.
Latter Day Saint missionaries > Georgia > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Missionnaires saints des derniers jours > Géorgie (État) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
Mormon Church
Mormon missionaries
Georgia
History
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Zusammenfassung:In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of twelve men. The church refused to bury the missionary in Georgia soil; instead, he was laid to rest in Salt Lake City beneath a monument that declared, "There is no law in Georgia for the Mormons." Most accounts of this event have linked Standing's murder to the virulent nineteenth-century anti-Mormonism that also took the life of prophet Joseph Smith and to an enduring southern tradition of extralegal violence. In these writings, the stories of the men who took Standing's life are largely ignored, and they are treated as significant only as vigilantes who escaped justice. Historian Mary Ella Engel adopts a different approach, arguing that the mob violence against Standing was a local event, best understood at the local level. Her examination of Standing's murder carefully situates it in the disquiet created by missionaries' successes in the North Georgia community. As Georgia converts typically abandoned the state for Mormon colonies in the West, a disquiet situated within a wider narrative of post-Reconstruction Mormon outmigration to colonies in the West. In this rich context, the murder reveals the complex social relationships that linked North Georgians-families, kin, neighbors, and coreligionists-and illuminates how mob violence attempted to resolve the psychological dissonance and gender anxieties created by Mormon missionaries. In laying bare the bonds linking Georgia converts to the mob, Engel reveals Standing's murder as more than simply mountain lawlessness or religious persecution. Rather, the murder responds to the challenges posed by the separation of converts from their loved ones, especially the separation of women and their dependents from heads of households.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220) and index.
ISBN:9780820355245
0820355240

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