Mormonism Vs Religion

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Today, with over seven million members in the United States alone, Mormonism is among the fastest growing of the world's religious movements. What is most noteworthy and historically accurate about Mormonism is that it was not merely another group or denomination but was the only new religious tradition founded in nineteenth-century America. Equally important is Mormonism's multifaceted and embattled relation to both the society from which it arose and to the evangelicalism that was such a prevailing force in the society. Mormonism was organizationally, culturally, and intellectually comprehensive, cohesive, and complete. To many of its followers, it proved a welcome solution to a highly molten society of widespread individualism in which