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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Robinson claimed that Smith took her into a room , ' locked the door , and then stated to her that he had had an affection for her for several years , and wished that she should be his ; that the Lord was well pleased with this matter ...
An especially difficult issue to resolve was the matter of continued cohabitation with plural wives . Frank J. Cannon thought Woodruff initially viewed the Manifesto as forbidding future cohabitation , but George Q. Cannon , during a 7 ...
He told me .. to think the matter over , and speak to him later about it . Such a ceremony as this could be performed in Mexico , so Pres . Woodruff has said . " Abraham later suggested to his father , in the presence of the entire ...
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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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| 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 |
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