Praying with One Eye Open
Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
$229.98
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2019
Summary
In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of twelve men. The church refused to bury the missionary in Georgia soil; instead, he was laid to rest in Salt Lake City beneath a monument that declared, “There is no law in Georgia for the Mormons.” Most accounts of this event have linked Standing’s murder to the virulent ninet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780820355252 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0820355259 |
| Author: | Mary Ella Engel |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Imprint: | University of Georgia Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Mary Ella Engel’s excellent Praying with One Eye Open will open your eyes to a forgotten episode of religious violence in the Deep South: the summary execution of Mormon missionary Joseph Standing. The murder occurred in 1879 in mountainous Whitfield County, Georgia, against a backdrop of economic woe, but it was mostly about sex, specifically the polygamy practiced by Latter Day Saints. This is a shocking and fascinating tale.
– Steve Oney * author of And the Dead Shall Rise *It is difficult to find fault with much of anything in this book. It is extremely well-researched… and compellingly written.
– Christopher Cannon Jones * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *About The Author
Mary Ella Engel
MARY ELLA ENGEL is an associate professor of history at Western Carolina University.
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