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English
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A Uniform and Common Recollection : Joseph Smith's Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2002
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35
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no.3
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113-144
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The history of the introduction of plural marriage by Joseph Smith is generally overviewed. Following the public announcement of its practice in 1852, Church leaders embarked on a campaign "to convince the LDS membership that polygamy was central to Mormon theology." They made a concerted effort to link Joseph Smith to polygamy and celestial marriage to plural marriage. Taysom argues that Brigham Young and other Church leaders "were actively engaged in altering the historical consciousness of the Mormon people by linking the theology of exaltation and endowment with plural marriage." After 1904 when Joseph F. Smith issued the "second manifesto" prohibiting plural marriage upon penalty of excommunication, the Church had to deal with a public memory which held that polygamy was a doctrine essential to salvation. In the 19th century they had to defend its practice against the testimony of Emma Smith and the RLDS Church. In the early 20th century, they had to counter the arguments of polygamous fundamentalists. They had to refashion a historical consciousness and mold a new public memory in which polygamy played no part in the doctrine about celestial marriage. James E. Talmage, B.H. Roberts, and Joseph Fielding Smith played key roles in redefining and reinterpreting polygamy in the historical past. The third phase of reconstructing the public memory of polygamy devolved from about the 1930s to the present. During this period, Church publications refashioned Joseph Smith and other early Church presidents into monogamists, ignoring their polygamous marriages. Emma's image was "refurbished" to be the "elect lady" who supported Joseph whole-heartedly and his eternal companion.
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"In Honorable Remembrance to All Generations": Commemoration and the Making of Mormon Battalion Memory, 1921-2021
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"O My Mother": Mormon Fundamentalist Mothers in Heaven and Women's Authority
"Out of the Mists of Memory" : Remembering Joseph Smith in Vermont
Separated but not Divorced : The LDS Church's Uncomfortable Relationship with its Polygamous Past
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What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A History of Cache County
A History of Davis County
A History of Emery County
A History of Iron County : Community Above Self
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A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
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Emma and Joseph : Their Divine Mission
Erastus Snow : The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church
From Isolation to Destination : The History of Washington County
Heathen in Our Fair Land' : Presbyterian Women Missionaries in Utah, 1870-90
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
I Was with My Family : Joseph Smith-Devoted Husband, Father, Son, and Brother
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
New Views of Mormon History : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
No Toil nor Labor Fear : The Story of William Clayton
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Presbyterian Missions and Cultural Interaction in the Far Southwest 1850-1950
Presbyterians and Latter-day Saints in Utah : A Century of Conflict and Compromise, 1830-1930
Representative Women of Deseret : A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Title
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
The Articles of Faith : A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Benjamin Presbyterian Church, 1886-1916
The Book of Doctrine and Covenants
The Gentile Comes to Utah : A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)
'The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect'
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Restoration of Major Doctrines Through Joseph Smith
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Women of Mormondom
Two School Systems in Conflict : 1867-1890