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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... doctrine " ( Mulder and Mortensen 1967 , 126 ) . Those uninitiated into the inner circles of the church had good rea- son to feel as Charlotte Haven did about polygamy . On 5 October 1843 Smith made his most pointed denunciation of ...
... doctrine , and that he should own the whole system ( revela- tion and all ) to be from Hell . " Law further wrote in ... doctrines that were " heretical and damnable in their influence . " The preamble resolved that because Joseph ...
... doctrine , " he " repented of his connection with this doctrine , and said it was of the devil . " Former Nauvoo stake president William Marks , a close friend of Emma , wrote in a July 1853 letter to the Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's ...
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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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