Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
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David Walker., & David Walker|AUTHOR. (2019). Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West . The University of North Carolina Press.

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Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.
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