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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... wanted , Durfee replied " she thought he wanted me for a wife . " At a clandestine meeting later that evening at the Heber C. Kimball home , Emily later recounted , Smith advised her that " the Lord had commanded him to enter into ...
... wanted Law for a spiri- tual husband " because Joseph " had so many spiritual wives , she thought it but fair that she would at least have one man spiritually sealed up to her and that she wanted Law , because he was such a ' sweet ...
... wanted me to get all the wives I wanted , and it was his council that I should do so " ( Kunz , 87 ) . Though the Mormons were living in isolation , hundreds of miles / from other settlements , their polygamous behavior became ...
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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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