The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl Givens

The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

Religion in America

Terryl Givens

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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 sou...

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