Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State

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Samuel D. Brunson

Between the Temple and the Tax Collector

The Intersection of Mormonism and the State

Samuel D. Brunson

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University of Illinois Press
25 February 2025

Religion & politics; History of religion; Christian Churches & denominations; Taxation & duties law

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.

By: Samuel D. Brunson
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252046322
ISBN 10: 0252046323
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State

""An important contribution that discusses unexplored aspects of the Mormon past, while the focus on tax law helps with the effort to move accounts of the LDS legal experience beyond matters of religious freedom. Written clearly and without legal jargon, Brunson's book offers readers a rare systematic study of the relationship between Mormonism and taxation.""--Nathan B. Oman, coeditor of Democracy, Religion, and the Market: Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion