Item Detail
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25676
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2
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88
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English
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Joseph Smith's Personal Polygamy
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 2012
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38
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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163-228
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As a personality of the nineteenth century, Joseph Smith stands out as extraordinary. While many writers have been critical of him and his teachings, most historians are impressed with at least some of his accomplishments, even those who believe he was a charlatan. He published a 500-page book of scripture, organized a new religion, dictated more than a hundred revelations, founded at least three cities, built one temple and began several more, and produced a remarkable theological framework that both expanded and contradicted Christian thinking of the era.
Of all of Joseph Smith's teachings and practices, none has been more controversial than this introduction of the practice of plural marriage among his followers. He reported that an angel commanded him not only to establish it but also to teach it as a doctrinal mandate to other Church members. In the decades that followed, most writers criticized him and the practice using the harshest of terms. -
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An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, and Hyrum Smith, His Brother
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
A Trajectory of Plurality : An Overview of Joseph Smith's Thirty-three Plural Wives
A Woman's View : Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Becoming Gods : A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism
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Between Two Worlds : The Origins of Shaker Celibacy, Oneida Community Complex Marriage, and Mormon Polygamy
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow, One of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage : A Discussion
Charles Edmund Richardson, Man of Destiny
Charles Mackay and His 'True and Impartial History' of the Mormons
Collected Discourses Delivered by President Wilford Woodruff, his two Counselors, the Twelve Apostles and Others, Volumes 1-5, 1886-1898
Doctrines and Dogmas of Brighamism Exposed
Early Days of Mormonism, Palmyra, Kirtland, and Nauvoo
Emma Hale : Wife of the Prophet Joseph
Encouraging Joseph Smith to Practice Plural Marriage : The Accounts of the Angel with a Drawn Sword
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
Fifteen Years among the Mormons : Being the Narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith
Four Zinas : A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier
Heber C. Kimball
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
I Knew the Prophets : An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Reporting Doctrinal Views of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
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In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
In Their Own Words : Women and the Story of Nauvoo
Isn't One Wife Enough?
John C. Bennett and Joseph Smith's Polygamy : Addressing the Question of Reliability
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
John Hyde, Junior-An Earlier View
Joseph Smith and His Mormon Empire
Joseph Smith III and The Restoration
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph W. Musser's Book of Remembrance
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs
Mormonism : Its Rise and Progress, and the Prophet Joseph Smith
Mormonism Unveiled
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Portraits or The Truth About the Mormon Leaders from 1830 to 1886
Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages, 1839-1845
Nauvoo Polygamy : "... But We Called it Celestial Marriage"
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
No Toil nor Labor Fear : The Story of William Clayton
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Organizational Development and Social Origins of the Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932 : A Prosopographical Study
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Plural Marriage, As Taught by the Prophet Joseph
Promises Made to the Fathers : Mormon Covenant Organization
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints, Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience
Representative Women of Deseret : A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Title
Sarah M. Pratt : The Shaping of an Apostate
Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo
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Sister Saints
Supporting Saints : Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Diary of Charles Lowell Walker
The Diary of Phineas Wolcott Cook
The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
The Forgotten Story of Nauvoo Celestial Marriage
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Joseph Smith Revelations : Text and Commentary
The Kingdom or Nothing : The Life of John Taylor, Militant Mormon
The Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932 : An American Elite
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormons : Or Latter-Day Saints
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 2 : Journal, 1832-1842
The Persistence of Polygamy : Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
The Promises Made to the Fathers : A Diacronic Analysis of Mormon Covenant Organization with Reference to Puritan Federal Theology
The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Rise of Mormonism : 1816-1844
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Junior
The True Origin of Mormon Polygamy
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
'They Might Have Known That He Was Not a Fallen Prophet' : The Nauvoo Journal of Joseph Fielding
Utah and the Mormons : The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-day Saints
Why We Practice Plural Marriage