Mormon Polygamy: A HistorySignature Books, 1989 - 255 Seiten In this comprehensive survey of Mormon Polygamy, Richard Van Wagoner details, with precision and detachment, the tumultuous reaction among insiders and outsiders to plural marriage. In an honest, methodical way, he traces the origins, the peculiarities common to the midwestern and later Utah periods, and post-1890 new marriages. Drawing heavily on first-hand accounts, he outlines the theological underpinnings and the personal trauma associated with this lifestyle. What emerges is a portrait that neither discounts nor exaggerates the historical evidence. He presents polygamy in context, neither condemning nor defending, while relevant contemporary accounts are treated sympathetically but interpreted critically. No period of Mormon history is emphasized over another. The result is a systematic view that is unavailable in studies of isolated periods or in the repetitions of folklore that only disguise the reality of what polygamy was. Scattered throughout the western United States today are an estimated 30,000 fundamentalist Mormons who still live "the principle." They, too, are a part of Joseph Smith's legacy and are included in this study. |
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... December 1845 entered into such a plural marriage with Alice Longstroth . His 23 December diary entry reads : " At 10.P.M. took Alice Longstrot ] h by the [ hand ] of our own free will and avow mutually acknowledge each other husband ...
... December . " Polygamy will not be abolished , " he argued , " if the enforcement of the law depends on those who practice and uphold the crime . It can only be suppressed by tak- ing away the political power of the sect which encourages ...
... December 1889 journal that Woodruff " laid the matter before the Lord . " " The answer came quick and strong , " he observed of Woodruff's 24 November revelation : " The word of the Lord was for us not to yield one particle of that ...
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THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS | 1 |
THE NAUVoo Expositor and MartyrdOM | 71 |
ANNOUNCING THE PRACTICE | 82 |
Urheberrecht | |
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