Item Detail
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22084
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4
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English
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Protecting the Family in the West : James Henry Martineau's Response to Interfaith Marriage
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 2010
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36
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no.4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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1-17
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"Though his affections were wide, the case of his daughter and his dear friend show that the theology and priorities of this typical Utah pioneer consistently centered on the eternal consequences for his wives, his children and himself.... This case study suggests that, for the sincerely religious at the turn of the century, enriching and protecting the family were the defining issues in how an individual handled religious and cultural difference. The meticulous Martineau diary thus reflects the fundamental place of personal interfaith attitudes in the individual Mormon and family experience of the nineteenth-century American West." [From author's conclusion]