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"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
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No Weapon Shall Prosper : New Light on Sensitive Issues
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU, in cooperation with Deseret Book Company
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105-119
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Perhaps no other aspect of Joseph Smith’s life has stirred controversy like the practice of plural marriage. Since its inception, both Latter-day Saints and members of other faiths have puzzled over polygamy and its complicated beginnings. Though the Church discontinued the practice over a century ago, polygamy continues to invite criticism from outside and questions from within the Latter-day Saint community. The fact that Joseph Smith was sealed to several younger women adds another layer of intrigue to an already difficult story. In this essay, the experience of one Latter-day Saint woman illuminates the spiritual world of the 1840s and provides insight into this complex topic.
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"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
“The Blessing That’s Anticipated Here Will Be Realized in the Next Life”: The Development of Modern Latter-day Saint Marital Sealing Rules -
A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
A Woman's View : Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept : Reflections on the 1877 Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings of the Dead
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Narrative of Some of the Proceedings of the Mormons : With Particulars Concerning the Training of the Indians, by Them, Description of the Mode of Endowment, Plurality of Wives
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Nauvoo Polygamy : "... But We Called it Celestial Marriage"
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46 : A Preliminary Demographic Report
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Plural Marriage, As Taught by the Prophet Joseph
Prologue to the Study of Joseph Smith's Marital Theology; In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. [by] Compton, Todd
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Life of Heber C. Kimball
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Persistence of Polygamy : Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives
Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith
Why We Practice Plural Marriage
Wilford Woodruff's Journals