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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... question is not now to be debated whether these things are so ; neither is it a question of much importance who wrote this book ? But the question , the momentous question is : will you now restore the law of God on this important ...
... questions , and in a few days after one of his daughters to be demanded as a wife for a married man , and not a question to be asked by the father . " 3. Peter Hess , a follower of James Strang , recounted in a 14 December 1846 letter ...
... Question , 1850-1865 : A Study in Politics and Public Opinion . " Ph.D. diss . , University of California at Berkeley , 1948 . " The Mormon Question Enters National Politics , 1850-1856 . " Utah Historical Quarterly 25 ( 1957 ) : 117-31 ...
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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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