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.
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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
"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