Between the Temple and the Tax Collector

The Intersection of Mormonism and the State

Samuel D. Brunson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252088391 (ISBN)

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The founding and development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints run parallel to the rise of the modern tax system and administrative state. Samuel D. Brunson looks at the relationships between the Church and various federal, state, local, and international tax regimes.

The church and its members engage with the state as taxpayers and as members of a faith exempt from taxes. As Brunson shows, LDS members and the Church have at various times enacted, enforced, and collected taxes while also challenging taxes in the courts and politics. Brunson delves into the ways LDS members used their status as taxpayers to affirm themselves as citizens and how outsiders have attacked the Church’s tax-exempt status to delegitimize it. Throughout, Brunson uses the daily interactions between the Latter-day Saints and taxation to explain important and inevitable holes in the wall between church and state.

Enlightening and informed, Between the Temple and the Tax Collector provides general readers and experts alike with a new perspective on a fundamental issue.

Samuel D. Brunson is the Georgia Reithal Professor of Law and the associate dean for Academic Affairs at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He is the author of God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Frontier Religion, Frontier Taxation

Mormon Origins
Funding a City
Collecting Taxes in Nauvoo
The Mormons’ Utah Home
Brigham Young and Federal Taxation
Enlarging Mormonism’s Borders
A Corporate Church in Brooklyn

Part II. Tinkering around the Edges of Tax and Religion

Mormon Protest Against Taxation
Polygamy and . . . Taxes?
The Mormon Church’s Lobbying
Volunteer Missionaries and Paid Clergy
Tax Exemption as a Lever for Change

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2025
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
ISBN-13	9780252088391 / 9780252088391
Zustand	Neuware