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A Radical Convergence

Latter-day Saints and Their Utopian Socialist Origins
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During the nineteenth century, socialists and workers from outside the United States converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and flocked to Mormon communities to build a social utopia. By 1890, working-class immigrants or their children comprised two-thirds of the LDS population in Utah. Erik J. Freeman uses the lives of radical converts to explore the international socialist politics that permeated the early Church. These energetic newcomers fueled LDS expansion even as they laid the foundation for a global religion. At the same time, utopian socialists within the Church helped lay the groundwork for later political and social movements and progressive ideas. The Church in the United States pivoted toward capitalism after the turn of the century, but socialist thought remained-and remain-an important thread throughout LDS communities around the world. Provocative and sweeping, A Radical Convergence tells the surprising story of utopian socialism's place in Church history.
Erik J. Freeman is an assistant professor of history at Idaho State University.
A Radical Convergence: Transnational Utopian Socialism and the Global Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Erik J. Freeman Introduction 14 pages Chapter 1 A Radical Convergence: Mormonism and Transnational Communitarianism in America 22 pages Chapter 2 Jacob Zundel: Finding Harmony and Forging German Mormonism 54 pages Chapter 3 William Gibson: Political Radicalism in Great Britain and Building Zion in the West 51 pages Chapter 4 Louis A. Bertrand: The Flowering and Fading of Mormonism and Romantic Socialism in France 35 pages Chapter 5 Francois Stoudeman and Josephine de La Harpe: The Trek from Swiss Socialism to the Utah Mormonism 40 pages Chapter 6 Plotino Rhodakanaty: Shattered Dreams of a Socialist and Mormon Alliance in Mexico 29 pages Chapter 7 Divergence: Making Mormons American and Anti-Communist 29 pages Epilogue 4 pages
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