Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385414733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385414741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author: Citizen of Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category : Bigamy
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Publisher: Collier's Publishing
ISBN: 9780934964579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: John Witte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710159X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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This volume documents the Western historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy, from antiquity to the present.

Author: Christine Talbot
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095359
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage, family structure, and American identity. In particular, Talbot examines "the Mormon question" with attention to how it constructed ideas about American citizenship around the presumed separation of the public and private spheres. Contrary to the prevailing notion of man as political actor, woman as domestic keeper, and religious conscience as entirely private, Mormons enfranchised women and framed religious practice as a political act. The way Mormonism undermined the public/private divide led white, middle-class Americans to respond by attacking not just Mormon sexual and marital norms but also Mormons' very fitness as American citizens. Poised at the intersection of the history of the American West, Mormonism, and nineteenth-century culture and politics, this carefully researched exploration considers the ways in which Mormons and anti-Mormons both questioned and constructed ideas of the national body politic, citizenship, gender, the family, and American culture at large.

Author: Kathryn Montalbano
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135139309X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy. Should government officials have the right to specifically target certain groups for extended surveillance? United States municipal, territorial, and federal agencies have investigated religious groups since the nineteenth century. While critics of contemporary mass surveillance tend to invoke the infringement of privacy, the mutual protection of religion and public expression by the First Amendment positions them, along with religious expression, comfortably within in the public sphere. This book analyzes government monitoring of Mormons of the Territory of Utah in the 1870s and 1880s for polygamy, Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) from the 1940s to the 1960s for communist infiltration, and Muslims of Brooklyn, New York, from 2002 to 2013 for suspected terrorism. Government agencies in these case studies attempted to understand how their religious beliefs might shape their actions in the public sphere. It follows that government agents did not just observe these communities, but they probed precisely what constituted religion itself alongside shifting legal and political definitions relative to their respective time periods. Together, these case studies form a new framework for discussions of the historical and contemporary monitoring of religion. They show that government surveillance is less predictable and monolithic than we might assume. Therefore, this book will be of great interest to scholars of United States religion, history, and politics, as well as surveillance and communication studies.

Author: Boston Athenaeum
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168

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Author: Massachusetts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1924

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