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Quinn, D. Michael, "Socioreligious Radicalism of the Mormon
Church: A Parallel to the Anabaptists," in Davis Bitton and Maureen
U. Beecher (eds.): "New Views of Mormon History," (University of
Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1987) pp. 363-386.

Does anyone have access to this?

Thank you.

I have that article, MCB. It is very interesting, and I could probably derive an outline of the similarities and differences from it. He closes by asking:

Subsequent Mormon leaders have relaxed or suspended many of these characteristics, but at the beginning radicalism was inextricably a part of the Mormon system of revelation, restoration, and authority. In this respect, Mormonism can never be less than a dormant socioreligious radicalism. Only time will tell whether the continued permeation of middle-class values within Mormonism will turn that dormancy into atrophy.

Time has told. He noted that as a rigidly hierarchical church, Mormonism has more of a problem repudiating past radicalism. The multiple and very diverse splinters of the anabaptist movement allowed successive leaders to easily repudiate what did not work. Big difference.