Possibly as early as the 1830s, followers of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism), were practicing the doctrine of polygamy or plural ... Criticism of polygamy · The end of polygamy in the...

Women were free to choose their spouses, whether to enter into a polygamous or monogamous union, or whether to marry at all. Some men entered plural marriage ...

Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph ...

For Joseph Smith, a marriage that survived death had to be per- formed by an officiator authorized to employ the sealing power of God's restored priesthood ...

17 янв. 2017 г. · The founder of the faith, Joseph Smith, took his first Mormon plural wife in 1841. In 1890, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Joseph Smith's first polygamous marriage in Nauvoo occurred on April 5, 1841. During the next seventeen months, Joseph was sealed to more than a dozen plural ... Early Plural Marriage · Polygamy Spreads among...

Smith and. Kunz (1976) found that women in polygamous marriages had only slightly lower fertility rates than those in monogamous marriages (7.46 vs. 7.82 births.

Some twenty-eight men and 106 women (as civil and plural wives) entered the prophet's order of celestial matrimony.

Despite the family problems polygamy caused for many of its members, early church leaders clearly believed polygamy was essential as a doctrine, (without ...