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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... Smith two months earlier on 29 June had been kept secret from Emma . Apparently Emma later found out about the relationship , for Eliza abruptly moved into the Jonathan Holmes resi- dence on 11 February 1843 ( Beecher 1975 , 402 ) ...
... Smith may have justified biblical polygamy at an early period in his life , the revelation on celestial marriage was ... Emma Smith . The intent of the revelation was obviously to convince her to accept what she had been resisting ...
... Emma Smith in her opposition to the principle . In an 1885 affidavit Law testified that Smith had told him in 1843 that " he had several wives sealed to him , and that they afforded him a great deal of pleasure ... [ but ] Emma had ...
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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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