scholarly journals Fatal Convergence in the Kingdom of God: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American History

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-347
Author(s):  
Sarah Barringer Gordon ◽  
Jan Shipps
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Mountain Meadows Massacre ◽  
Mountain Meadows

Leave Taking: Materialities of Moving Over Land

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon A. Novak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life History ◽  
American History ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Human Bones ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mountain Meadows Massacre ◽  
Leave Taking ◽  
Mountain Meadows

Drawing on recent theories of materiality and non-human agency, this article examines the aftermath of a compelling episode in American history, the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857. In particular, I focus on certain ‘extensions’ of the massacre victims, as they encounter and become entangled with other material traces and embodied remembrances over the course of the twentieth century. An initial illustration of this process is drawn from the life history of an Arkansas native whose movements to and from his homeland have entangled him in the vast assemblage brought together by the events at Mountain Meadows. I then turn to the rupture in this assemblage that was triggered in 1999 by the exposure of human bones at the massacre site. Materiality theory highlights the ways in which some objects (or their parts) persist and remain inalienable, while others circulate with varying degrees of freedom. Patterns of persistence and circulation are analysed here by focusing on two kinds of objects with intimate ties to the massacre victims: the bodies of the 17 surviving children, and six buttons made of glass and metal.

scholarly journals The Mountain Meadows Massacre and “poisoned springs”: scientific testing of the more recent, anthrax theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugo A. Perego ◽  
Alessandro Achilli ◽  
Jayne E. Ekins ◽  
Lucio Milani ◽  
Martina Lari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Meadows Massacre ◽  
Mountain Meadows ◽  
Scientific Testing

scholarly journals The Vision of the Good Society in the Social Gospel: What, Where, and When is the Kingdom of God?

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Merkley
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Good Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Culture

Abstract The Progressive years, from the 1890s to 1919, were the last period of American history during which the “national faith” was publicly proclaimed in the political arena. By the 1930s, politicians excused themselves from appearing on platforms with the ministers and the symbols of Christian faith. Protestant clergymen owed their lease on the attentions of the politicians and the voting public of those years to the intellectuals' patience with the liberal preachers ' reinterpretation of the agenda of progress in terms of the imminent, poslmillenial “Kingdom of God.” Meanwhile, the spectacular advance of premillenialism in the ranks of the laity embarrassed the clergy by exposing the gulf between the liberal-philosophic commitments of the learned leadership and the continued investments of the laity in a supernaturalist understanding of the Christian faith. The vehemence of the Social Gospelers ' denunciation of premillenialism is the best clue to their determination not to accept the reality that would henceforth govern the life of the churches: that Christian faith and doctrine no longer belonged in the general culture.

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