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. ... Publisher description. |
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Either he could respect his wife's wishes and remain monogamous , or he could , as Joseph Smith did , ignore her objections and take plural wives without her consent . Kimball Young reported an account of a Mormon elder in Saint George ...
Either he could respect his wife's wishes and remain monogamous , or he could , as Joseph Smith did , ignore her objections and take plural wives without her consent . Kimball Young reported an account of a Mormon elder in Saint George ...
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With the exception of Lorenzo Snow , who cohabited only with his youngest wife , not a single apostle or member of the First Presidency discontinued connubial relationships with plural wives . Apostle Abraham H. Cannon recorded several ...
With the exception of Lorenzo Snow , who cohabited only with his youngest wife , not a single apostle or member of the First Presidency discontinued connubial relationships with plural wives . Apostle Abraham H. Cannon recorded several ...
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Despite the fact that Grant had violated his 1891 amnesty agreement with the government , had attempted unsuccessfully to take Fanny Woolley as a post - Manifesto plural wife , and had been found guilty of “ unlawful cohabitation " in ...
Despite the fact that Grant had violated his 1891 amnesty agreement with the government , had attempted unsuccessfully to take Fanny Woolley as a post - Manifesto plural wife , and had been found guilty of “ unlawful cohabitation " in ...
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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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