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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Eliza Roxcy Snow , “ Zion's Poetess , " had been living in the Smith home since 14 August 1842. Her sealing to Smith two months earlier on 29 June had been kept secret from Emma . Apparently Emma later found out about the relationship ...
While Emma was on a trip to St. Louis , Lucy Walker , a seventeen - year - old “ dining room girl ” living in the Smith home , had been sealed to Smith by William Clayton on 1 May 1843.11 The next morning , prior to Emma's afternoon ...
Woodruff saying that the Manifesto would never apply to our living with our wives , and he would see them damned and in hell before he would agree to cease living with his wives or advise any other person to do so .
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Nutzerbericht - wickenden - LibraryThingVan Wagoner writes a compelling account of early Mormon polygamy. A fascinating look at how one modern American religion's culture evolved from it's beginnings with in the mid-1800's until it's ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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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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THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS | 1 |
STIRRINGS IN Nauvoo | 17 |
PROTECTING THE LORDS ANOINTED | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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