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The Power and the Glory: Idaho’s Religious History
Idaho’s Place: A New History of the Gem State (2014)
  • Jill K. Gill, Boise State University
Abstract
Idaho's published religious history looks much like the state itself: bottom-heavy and abundantly Mormon. Historians have concentrated their research on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious stories, many of which involve the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The amount of research thins considerably for the period between 1920 and 1970, just as the middle of the state does in population. One finds small clusters of studies on particular sociopolitical religious topics between the 1970s and 2000, particularly those related to modern-day culture wars, just as one encounters scattered population centers when reaching Idaho's panhandle. For anyone interested in religious history, therefore, Idaho is still a frontier; it contains vast areas of uncharted terrain, especially with respect to twentieth-century religious ideas but poses as challenge for those attempting to analyze the state's full religious past.
Publication Date
2014
Editor
Adam M. Sowards
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN
9780295993676
Citation Information
Jill K. Gill. "The Power and the Glory: Idaho’s Religious History" Seattle, WAIdaho’s Place: A New History of the Gem State (2014) p. 108 - 135
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jill_gill/3/