Item Detail
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18548
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4
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38
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English
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"There Is Always a Way of Escape" : Continuity and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Boundary Maintenance Strategies
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Western Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2006
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37
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2
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Logan, UT
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Oxford University Press
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183-206
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"Mormon historiography typically views the Manifesto of 1890, which officially ended the practice of plural marriage, as a major rupture of Mormon belief and behavioral patterns. This essay reexamines that idea and argues that the process that ended plural marriage displays continuity with other events in early Mormon history." [Journal abstract] In two earlier events, the Church had initially built strong resistence to opposition but then, when the Church's existence was threatened, accommodated the pressure by restructuring its boundaries with broader culture. By denouncing plural marriage and redefining Church practice and doctrine through the Manifesto of 1890, Wilford Woodruff simply followed the example of the Church in dealing with previous crises in Missouri and in Nauvoo.
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