Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Doctrine of the Priesthood Vol 5 No. 8 - Polygamy its Genetic and Sociological Consequences as Revealed in Studies of Modern Science
Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Doctrine of the Priesthood Vol 5 No. 5 - The Suspension of Plural Marriage and the Fulfillment of Prophecy
Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Doctrine of the Priesthood Vol 5 No. 6 - In Defense of Celestial Marriage — A Response to Anti-Mormon Attacks by Benjamin F. Johnson
Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Doctrine of the Priesthood Vol 1 No. 3 - Polygamy in Mexico as Practiced by the Mormon Church 1895—1905
Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964418
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Modern Polygamy in the United States
Author: Cardell JacobsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199831326
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Few people realize that polygamy continues to exist in the United States. Thus, world-wide attention focused on the State of Texas in 2008 as agents surrounded the compound of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and took custody of more than 400 children. Several members of this schismatic religious group, whose women adorned themselves in "prairie dresses," admitted to practicing polygamy. The state justified the raid on charges that underage marriage was being forced on young women. A year later, however, all but one of the children had been returned to their parents and only ten men were charged with crimes, some barely related to the original charges. This book reveals the history, culture, and sometimes an insider's look at the polygamous groups located primarily in the western parts of the United States. The contributors to this volume are historians, anthropologists, and sociologists familiar with the various groups. A legal scholar also addresses the legality of the Texas raid and a geneticist examines the paternity issues. Together, these authors provide a much needed understanding of the surprisingly large number of groups and individuals who live a quiet polygamous life style in the United States.
The Priesthood of Modern Polygamy
Author: Brian C. HalesPublisher: Northwest Pub
ISBN: 9781880416082
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Doctrine of the Priesthood Vol 4 No. 1 - The Trials of John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley
Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Doctrine of the Priesthood Vol 1 No. 5 - Priesthood and the Law of Succession, Part l, A Secret Priesthood & Part 2, The Restoration of the Higher Order and Fullness of the Patriarchal Priesthood
Author: Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Solemn Covenant
Author: B. Carmon HardyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252018336
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
In his famous Manifesto of 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff called for an end to the more than fifty-year practice of polygamy. Fifteen years later, two men were dramatically expelled from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles for having taken post-Manifesto plural wives and encouraged the step by others. Evidence reveals, however, that hundreds of Mormons (including several apostles) were given approval to enter such relationships after they supposedly were banned. Why would Mormon leaders endanger agreements allowing Utah to become a state and risk their church's reputation by engaging in such activities--all the while denying the fact to the world? This book seeks to find the answer through a review of the Mormon polygamous experience from its beginnings. In the course of national debate over polygamy, Americans generally were unbending in their allegiance to monogamy. Solemn Covenant provides the most careful examination ever undertaken of Mormon theological, social, and biological defenses of "the principle". Although polygamy was never a way of life for the majority of Latter-day Saints in the nineteenth century, Carmon Hardy contends that plural marriage enjoyed a more important place in the Saints' restorationist vision than most historians have allowed. Many Mormons considered polygamy a prescription for health, an antidote for immorality, and a key to better government. Despite intense pressure from the nation to end the experiment, because of their belief in its importance and gifts, polygamy endured as an approved arrangement among church members well into the twentieth century. Hardy demonstrates how Woodruff's Manifesto of 1890 evolved from a tactic to preservepolygamy into a revelation now used to prohibit it. Solemn Covenant examines the halting passage followed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it transformed itself into one of America's most vigilant champions of the monogamous way.
Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
Author: Irwin AltmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567312
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines marital relationships in contemporary Mormon polygamous families.
