Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy, Its Origins, Practice and Demise

by B. Carmon Hardy

Book Overview

Celestial Marriage--the "doctrine of the plurality of wives"--polygamy. No issue in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (popularly known as the Mormon Church) has attracted more attention. From its contentious and secretive beginnings in the 1830s to its public proclamation in 1852, and through almost four decades of bitter conflict with the federal government to Church renunciation of the practice in 1890, this belief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806159065
• ISBN13: 9780806159065
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"