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Modern polygamy in the United States : historical, cultural, and legal issues / edited by Cardell K. Jacobson with Lara Burton.

Van Pelt Library BX8680.M55 M64 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Jacobson, Cardell K., 1941-
Burton, Lara.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Polygamy--Religious aspects--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Polygamy.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Polygamy--United States.
United States.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 368 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Contents:
Prologue : the incident at Eldorado, Texas / Cardell K. Jacobson and Lara Burton
A repeat of history : a comparison of the Short Creek and Eldorado raids on the FLDS / Martha Sonntag Bradley
One vision : the making, unmaking, and remaking of a fundamentalist polygamous community / Heber B. Hammon and William Jankowiak
Twenty years of observations about the fundamentalist polygamists / Ken Driggs
History, culture, and variability of Mormon schismatic groups / Janet Bennion
Differing polygamous patterns : nineteenth-century LDS and twenty-first-century FLDS marriage systems / Kathryn M. Daynes
Demographic, social, and economic characteristics of a polygamist community / Tim B. Heaton and Cardell K. Jacobson
The many faces of polygamy : an analysis of the variability in modern Mormon fundamentalism in the intermountain west / Janet Bennion
"What love got to do with it?" : earthly experience of celestial marriage, past and present / Carrie A Miles
Social scientific perspectives on the FLDS rain and the corresponding media coverage / Ryan T. Cragun and Michael Nielsen
Learning the wrong lessons : a comparison of FLDS, Family International, and Branch Davidian child-protection interventions / Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd
The international fight against barbarism : historical and comparative perspectives on marriage timing, consent, and polygamy / Arland Thornton
Child protection law and the FLDS raid in Texas / Linda F. Smith
The intricacies and ethics of parental genetic testing / Deborah L. Cragun and Ryan T. Cragun.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780199746378
0199746370
9780199746385
0199746389
OCLC:
466084007

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