This is a path breaking work on Mormonism in Finland, which draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources from archives in the United States and in Finland. Never before has anything similar been attempted. The author looks at the nineteenth-century setting for the introduction of Mormonism to Finland, and the history of nonconformity in Finland, a predominantly Lutheran country, in the mid-to-late 1800s. Also treated are important discussions of Finnish legislation relating to nonconformist sects; Mormon use of tracts and newspaper articles for public relations purposes; the extensive proselytizing of Mormon missionaries in major cities and towns; and the slow but steady growth of the membership of the Mormon outposts and congregations, which however never amounted to even a dent, demographically speaking, in the religious statistics of the Finnish nation. Östman describes in great detail, at least to begin with, run-ins with civil and religious authorities. Readers also get the fascinating, private insights of clerics as they conspired in tandem to rid Finland of the “Mormon menace” but were, meanwhile, thwarted to a great extent by civil authorities who, having decided that Mormons were by and large law-abiding, honorable citizens, declined to support Lutheran initiatives to have the Mormons prosecuted. In that regard, as well, the book is a masterful treatment of the rise of liberal thought and initiatives and of religious freedoms in the troubled Finland under the Czars, which would serve as the hotbed of Leninist plots that eventually toppled the old regime.