Modern polygamy in the United States historical, cultural, and legal issues / [electronic resource] : edited by Cardell K. Jacobson with Lara Burton. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 368 p.) : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : the incident at Eldorado, Texas / A repeat of history : a comparison of the Short Creek and Eldorado raids on the FLDS / One vision : the making, unmaking, and remaking of a fundamentalist polygamous community / Twenty years of observations about the fundamentalist polygamists / History, culture, and variability of Mormon schismatic groups / Differing polygamous patterns : nineteenth-century LDS and twenty-first-century FLDS marriage systems / Demographic, social, and economic characteristics of a polygamist community / The many faces of polygamy : an analysis of the variability in modern Mormon fundamentalism in the intermountain west / "What love got to do with it?" : earthly experience of celestial marriage, past and present / Social scientific perspectives on the FLDS rain and the corresponding media coverage / Learning the wrong lessons : a comparison of FLDS, Family International, and Branch Davidian child-protection interventions / The international fight against barbarism : historical and comparative perspectives on marriage timing, consent, and polygamy / Child protection law and the FLDS raid in Texas / The intricacies and ethics of parental genetic testing / Cardell K. Jacobson and Lara Burton -- Martha Sonntag Bradley -- Heber B. Hammon and William Jankowiak -- Ken Driggs -- Janet Bennion -- Kathryn M. Daynes -- Tim B. Heaton and Cardell K. Jacobson -- Janet Bennion -- Carrie A Miles -- Ryan T. Cragun and Michael Nielsen -- Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd -- Arland Thornton -- Linda F. Smith -- Deborah L. Cragun and Ryan T. Cragun.

9780199830220 (electronic bk.) 0199830223 (electronic bk.)


Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.


Polygamy--Religious aspects--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Polygamy--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family


Electronic books.

BX8680.M55 / M64 2011eb

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