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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... wives . Jacob had two wives and two concubines ( Gen. 29-30 ) ; Elkanah had two wives ( 1 Sam . 1 : 2 ) ; Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty concubines ( 2 Chron . 11:21 ) ; Abijah married fourteen women ( 2 Chron . 13:21 ) ; David ...
... wives , the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University has discovered that only twelve percent of their mothers ever worked outside the home after marriage . Most of those who did were teachers , nurses , mid- wives ...
... wives . Apostle Abraham H. Cannon recorded several comments in his diary from a 1 April 1892 discussion of the proposed amnesty petition . According to Cannon , Lorenzo Snow stated that " when the Manifesto was issued we had no idea ...
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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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