Modern Polygamy in the United States: Historical, Cultural, and Legal Issues

by Cardell Jacobson and Lara Burton

Few people realize that polygamy continues to exist in the United States. Thus, world-wide attention focused on the State of Texas in 2008 as agents surrounded the compound of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and took custody of more than 400 children. Several members of this schismatic religious group, whose women adorned themselves in "prairie dresses," admitted to practicing polygamy. The state justified the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199746389
• ISBN13: 9780199746385
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"