Brian C. Hales
Modern Polygamy: The Generations After the Manifesto provides a background for understanding the practice of polygamy by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and charts new ground in the study of Mormon Fundamentalists since polygamy's official discontinuation in 1904. This book investigats the assertion that many plural marriages were solemnized under claims of a new priesthood line of authority asserted by a man named Lorin Woolley. It also focuses on modern-day polygamists many of whom accepted Woolley's teachings and authority creating many of the fundamentalist organizations during those years after the manifesto. The Allreds, the FLDS Church in Texas and on the Utah-Arizona border, the Kingstons, the LeBarons, the TLC Church in Manti, Utah, and other splinter groups are all scrutinized in this study. Regardless of one's beliefs regarding Joseph Smith and plural marriage, this historical and doctrinal volume will provide interesting reading and enlightenment.
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Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalists: The Generations After the Manifesto