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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... feel alone and no one to speak to , to call my own . I feel like a lamb without a mother , I do not blame any person or persons , no - May the Lord our Father bless Brother Brigham and all purtains unto him forever . tell him for me I ...
... feel- ings of our people , " the writer charged : " The people say that you and Can- non and Smith have run away and left the masses to go to the penitentiary or humiliate themselves before the courts . You will force men to go to the ...
... feel comfortable having his fellow apostles become scapegoats to " save my expulsion or to save me . " " If Taylor and Cowley have done no wrong , " he wired the First Presidency , “ and their acts meet with the approval of the Brethren ...
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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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