The Mormon Military Experience
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3432-3 (ISBN)
The Mormon military experience is unique in American history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is the only denomination to field military units for its own support and purpose rather than national interests, an effort which began in Missouri in 1838 and lasted through the Spanish American War of 1898. From World War I onward, however, the military exceptionalism of the LDS Church faded and Mormon soldiers came to serve national interests as loyal citizens alongside their fellow Americans. The Mormon Military Experience: 1838 to the Cold War is the first book to present a historical overview of the Mormon military experience. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell this unique story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced war and military service and their teachings concerning participation in armed conflict.The LDS Church’s distinct relationship between religious life and military service is rooted in its adherence to the Book of Mormon and its unique doctrine based in ancient and then modern revelations from church leaders. Religious and military exceptionalism went hand in hand during the nineteenth century, when LDS Church leaders dictated when and how members would serve in armed conflict. Mormon militiamen were often more loyal to church interests and the guidance of LDS leaders than they were to government policy, from mustering of the Mormon Battalion during the Mexican War to orchestrating the armed effort during the Utah War of 1857-58. In Utah the Saints supported Church policy during the Indian wars to serving as Civil War volunteers in the West but were counseled by Church leaders not to serve in the bloody campaigns in the East.
While LDS leaders adapted church practices and policies to support national objectives at times, there were also occasions when Mormon militia units defied state and federal military forces, sometimes to the point of open combat. No other American denomination has done this. This is a story about changing loyalties: as the LDS Church transformed from a personalist religious movement on the edge of society to a mainstay of American religious and political life, Mormons have moved from battling the US military to serving with distinction within it.
Lt. Col. Sherman L. Fleek, US Army (Retired) is the Command Historian at the US Military Academy at West Point.Robert C. Freeman is professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU.
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface: The Genesis of an Idea
Introduction
Book One: Nineteenth-Century Conflicts and Mormon Exceptionalism
1. The Mormon Way of War: Teachings and Practice
2. A Civil Conflict in Missouri
3. The Nauvoo Legion: Forging a Mormon Army
4. Mormon Defiance: The Mormon Territorial Militia and the Utah War
6. The American Civil War: LDS Service and Postwar Frustration
7. The Saints and Indians at War
8. Wars with Spain and the Philippines, 1898-1902: The End of Mormon Exceptionalism
Book Two: Twentieth-Century Conflicts and the End of Mormon Exceptionalism
9. American Expedition 1946 and Saints in Mexico
10. World War I: Mormons Enter the Mainstream Ranks
11. World War II: Saints in the Global War
12. Early Cold War Conflicts: The Rise of the International Church
13. Southeast Asia: Defending Democracy and Expanding the Church
14. LDS Opposition to MX Missile Basing
Epilogue: The Cold War and Beyond
Appendix: Medal of Honor Citations
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipients
Global War on Terrorism
Chronology: The Mormon Military Experience, 1820-1896
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations follow page 18
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Kansas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 319 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7006-3432-0 / 0700634320 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7006-3432-3 / 9780700634323 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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