Richard Ostling
Författare till Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
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- Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
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There was very little discussion here on the right wing fringe, FLDS etc. Most of the discussion was on the liberal wing and its challenges with the institutional center. Nowadays, though, with folks like the Bundys and the whole shift of the country to the authoritarian right... that'd be some very interesting territory to explore.
I've just learned about #DezNat - Deseret Nationalism as a social networking thing. When we first moved here, I was talking with a political candidate and he brought up Utah Exceptionalism, a very new concept for me. The LDS Church is very big not just in Utah but also Idaho and Arizona. Hard to say what exactly a civil war could look like in the next few decades. But the #DezNat folks, and the huge and highly centralized and organized institution behind them... they seem well prepared to take over a major piece of the country.
Anyway this book doesn't go into great depth in any direction, but it's a great introduction to the LDS scene.… (mer)