Mormons & The Founding of Salt Lake City

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Church of the Latter Day Saints is one shrouded in mystery, whispers of polygamy and is often synonymous with Salt Lake City. But where did this religion come from? And how did Mormonism make it to Utah?

To find out more about the American born religion of Mormonism, Don is joined by Professor Peter Coviello from the University of Illinois. Peter is the author of Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism.

Produced by Freddy Chick and Sophie Gee. Edited by Siobhan Dale. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:27.0	T's and C supply, fireworks not included. It's winter 1846. A mass of some 3,500 people is gathered on the banks of the Missouri River in what is now Nebraska.
0:44.0	Their leader, a man named Brigham Young,
0:46.4	has violated federal law by negotiating his own treaty
0:49.7	with the Omaha and Oto peoples who call these lands home.
0:53.7	These people are migrants from their homes back east, outcasts on the long exodus west, escaping
0:59.2	persecution by normative American society.
1:02.4	They are held in contempt, suspect, widely vilified for their odd religious practices,
1:08.0	among them polygamy.
1:09.0	Two years ago, their founder, Joseph Smith, was murdered murdered and since then suspicions about this
1:15.2	strange society of Americans have only grown but here under the open sky
1:19.7	from the wide and wintry American frontier, these people, these Mormons, dream of another episode of American History Hit.
1:40.6	I'm Don Wildman glad to know you're out there.
1:43.0	As with so much in this mostly immigrant nation of ours, our religious practices, and there are so
1:48.7	many, have been one way or another imported from other lands and other traditions.
1:53.6	Of course, aside from practices of indigenous peoples, Native Americans, few and far between
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