Mormon Polygamy: A HistoryIn 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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But as early as 1835 Smith wanted Mormon couples married by Mormon elders
rather than by civil authorities or leaders of other religions . ... The Lord God of
Israel has given me authority to unite the people in the holy bonds of matrimony .
In his church - sponsored The Seer , Pratt had explained in 1853 : “ Marriages ,
then among all nations , though legal according to the laws of men , have been
illegal according to the laws , authority , and institutions of Heaven . " As a result ...
He laid the blame for his “ performing surreptitious plural marriages on his file
leaders , ' " from whom he claimed to have received authority . He also viewed
the " announcements of Presidents as ' bluffs ' for the world and not as taking
away ...
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Nutzerbericht - amydross - LibraryThingA truly fascinating work. I bought this book in a mainline LDS-run bookstore, so I can only imagine that it must have been approved by the church hierarchy. That said, it appears to be irreproachably ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - bibliostuff - LibraryThingSingle best volume to understand the development of polygamy in Mormon history. Vollständige Rezension lesen
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| Titel | Mormon Polygamy: A History |
| Autor/in | Richard S. Van Wagoner |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | Signature Books, 1989 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Jan. 2010 |
| ISBN | 0941214796, 9780941214797 |
| Länge | 255 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |