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1.
Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Contributors:
Publisher:
Berg 2008
Subjects:
Polygamy--Cross-Cultural Studies
Polygamy--History
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...The Catholic Church did not accept polygamy,but neither did it consistently prevent...are no specific prohibitions against polygamy inthe New Testament allowed various religious...proposedlegalizing of 'simultaneous' polygamy caused controversy, however, and the...
2.
Modern Polygamy in the United States: Historical, Cultural, and Legal Issues
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2011
Subjects:
Polygamy--Religious Aspects--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Polygamy--United States
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...but will investigate and prosecute polygamy itself. And, if the State of Texas...other state) does prosecute people for polygamy itself, it is likely thatthe polygamists...higher courts on the grounds thatanti-polygamy laws are unconstitutional. This leads...
3.
Exposae of Polygamy: A Lady's Life among the Mormons
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Publisher:
Utah State University Press 2008
Subjects:
Mormon Church--Controversial Literature
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--Doctrines
Mormon Church--Doctrines
Polygamy--Religious Aspects--Mormon Church
Stenhouse, T. B. H., Mrs., B. 1829
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...following brief summary of the history of polygamy in the Mormonchurch up to the time when...2007); Richard Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History, 2nd edition(Salt Lake...women's motivations inentering into polygamy. The most common justification he finds...
4.
The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
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Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 2002
Subjects:
Freedom Of Religion--United States--History
Church And State--United States--History
Polygamy--Utah--History
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wives dedicated to opposing polygamy and publicizing the abuse of women...Timothy Egan, "ThePersistence of Polygamy," New York Times, 28 February...Seealso Tom Gorman, "Utah Drags Polygamy out of Shadows and into Court...
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Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff
Contributors:
Publisher:
Utah State University Press 2009
Subjects:
Polygamy--Religious Aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Polygamy--Religious Aspects--Mormon Church
Woodruff, Abraham Owen, 1872-1904--Correspondence
Woodruff, Helen May Winters, B. 1873--Correspondence
Lambert, Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff, B. 1882--Correspondence
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...his suspicions that post-Manifesto polygamy was on the rise.76 While official church...and ambiguous about thepost-Manifesto polygamy issue and argues that while President...privatelypromoted post-Manifesto polygamy.77 Helen's sister, Susan, for example...
7.
The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa
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Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1998
Subjects:
Pastoral Systems--Africa, Eastern
Herders--Africa, Eastern
Camels--Africa, Eastern
Polygamy--Africa, Eastern
Marginality, Social--Africa, Eastern
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...find comparatively little inequality of wealth, the range of polygamy alsovaries within narrow limits.' But in Bida, the royal...haverarely less than four wives, the upper limits of their polygamy are very fluid, and cannoteven be ascertained with any accuracy...
8.
Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1998
Subjects:
Apostolic United Brethren
Mormon Women--United States--Case Studies
Polygamy--United States--Case Studies
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...Cultures, University ofAlabama Press.Kraut Ogden. 1983. Polygamy in the Bible, Salt Lake City: Pioneer Press...Press.Logue Larry. 1984. Time of Marriage: Monogamy and Polygamy in a UtahTown. Journal of Mormon History 4:3-26Murphy...
10.
The Debatabase Book: A Must-Have Guide for Successful Debate
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Publisher:
International Debate Education Association 2007 (3rd edition)
Subjects:
Debates And Debating
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...particular time, place, and culture.Polygamy has been the norm in many societies through­out history. Polygamy is not about freedom to fornicatewith...just as in monogamous marriages.Polygamy reduces the desire for adultery by...
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