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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... ( ibid . ) . Nancy's brother , John , recounting the incident years later in an affidavit , remembered that " Nancy refused him , saying if she ever got mar- ried she would marry a single man or none at all , and took her bonnet and went ...
... ( ibid . , 408-11 ) . Smith , who had been sealed to Maria and Sarah Lawrence in the summer or early fall of 1843 , had himself appointed legal guardian of the two orphan girls on 4 June 1844 , two weeks after Law's charges were filed ...
... ( ibid . , 448 ) . Smith ordered the city marshal to " destroy the print- ing press from whence issues the Nauvoo Expositor and pi the type of said printing establishment in the street , and burn all the Expositors and libelous handbills ...
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THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS | 1 |
STIRRINGS IN NAUVOO | 17 |
PROTECTING THE LORDS ANOINTED | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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