Böcker av Kathleen Flake

This work considers the relationship between religion, state, and market, illustrating that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Scholars from a variety of disciplines explore more intentionally the extent to which markets are implicated in and illuminate the place of religion in public life.

Between 1901 and 1907, a coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism.