Item Detail
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18575
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English
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Polygamy and Mormon Identity
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Journal of American Culture
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June 2005
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28
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no.2
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165-177
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Kendall and Daryl White examine the connection between plural marriage and Mormon identity by describing the nineteenth-century establishment and practice of polygamy, the Church's post-Manifesto assimilation into mainstream America, and contemporary attempts to completely dissociate polygamy from Mormonism. They also predict that because of the Manifesto's suspension, not revocation, of plural marriage, the Church's success among African polygamous communities, and polygamy's centrality to the doctrine of celestial marriage, Church leaders will soon reverse their position and begin to teach plural marriage once again.