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Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-20 - Publisher: Yale University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-01 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently e
Language: en
Pages: 273
Pages: 273
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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 cultur
Language: en
Pages: 449
Pages: 449
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-30 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Celestial Marriage—the “doctrine of the plurality of wives”—polygamy. No issue in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (popula
Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides