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Polygamy
Polygamy. Marriage in which a person may have more than one spouse at the same time (in contrast to monogamy). Polygyny is the marriage of a man to more than one wife, polyandry the marriage of a woman to more than one husband. Polyandry is relatively rare (e.g. the Nayar and Toda of India), polygyn... Read more
bigamy
bigamy , crime of marrying during the continuance of a lawful marriage. Bigamy is not committed if a prior marriage has been terminated by a divorce or a decree of nullity of marriage . In the United States if a husband or wife is absent and unheard of for seven (or in some states five) years and... Read more
Mormons
Mormons Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which was founded in New York in 1830 by Joseph Smith (1805–44). He claimed to have discovered, through divine revelation, the ‘Book of Mormon’, relating the history of a group of Hebrews who migrated to Ameri... Read more
Community of Christ
Community of Christ formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, religious group that regards itself as the successor of the church founded by Joseph Smith . They organized in 1852, five years after Mormons under Brigham Young began settling in Utah, formally becomin... Read more
John of Leiden
John of Leiden c.1509-1536, Dutch Anabaptist leader. His original name was Beuckelszoon, Beuckelzoon, Bockelszoon, Bockelson, Beukels, or Buckholdt. John of Leiden was attracted to the extreme left of the early Reformation movement through the influence of Thomas Münzer . In 1533 he joined ... Read more
family
family a basic unit of social structure, the exact definition of which can vary greatly from time to time and from culture to culture. How a society defines family as a primary group, and the functions it asks families to perform, are by no means constant. There has been much recent discussion of t... Read more
Brigham Young
Brigham Young , 1801-77, American religious leader, early head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, b. Whitingham, Vt. Brigham Young was perhaps the greatest molder of Mormonism, his influence having a greater effect even than that of the church's founder, Joseph Smith , in shaping t... Read more
John Humphrey Noyes
John Humphrey Noyes 1811-86, American reformer, founder of the Oneida community, b. Brattleboro, Vt. He studied theology at Yale but lost his license to preach because of his "perfectionist" doctrine. This took its name from Mat. 5.48 and was based on the belief that man's innate sinlessness ... Read more
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints name of the church founded (1830) at Fayette, N.Y., by Joseph Smith . The headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its members, now numbering about 5.7 million in the United States and 13 million worldwide (2008), are commonly called Mormons. Orga... Read more
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism worldwide 20th-21st-century Christian movement that emphasizes the experience of Spirit baptism, generally evidenced by speaking in tongues ( glossolalia ). The name derives from Pentecost , the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks, which falls on the fiftieth day after Passover... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "polygamy"

Polygamy
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law POLYGAMY The offense of willfully and knowingly having more than...bigamy (having two spouses) is a subset of the crime of polygamy (having more than one spouse), and the law makes no practical...the two. Even in states that separately criminalize both polygamy and bigamy, either crime is committed when a ... Read more
polygamy
Book article from: World Encyclopedia polygamy Marriage in which more than one spouse is permitted. More often it is used to denote polygyny (several wives) than polyandry (several husbands). Polygamy is legal in many nations. Read more
Reynolds v. United States
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...administration's campaign to stamp out Mormon polygamy. Grant appointed James B. McKean, chief...territorial governor, with orders to end Mormon polygamy. McKean's United States marshals rounded...Anti‐Mormon arguments termed polygamy socially destructive and accused the... Read more
Mormon Church
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...early years because of its practice of polygamy and its opposition to the use of common...Smith and his followers were practicing polygamy, or plural marriage. Smith and his brother...law reached its nadir over the issue of polygamy. By the mid-1800s, the Mormon Church... Read more
Colenso, John William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Colenso, John William (1814–83), a mathematician who became bishop of Natal. He was denounced for his strong views on Zulu polygamy in relation to Christian conversion and for applying the Christian ethic to the problem of race relations in southern Africa... Read more
monogamy
Book article from: World Encyclopedia monogamy Relationship or marriage that is an exclusive union between two people. It is commonly supported by legal institutions. See also polygamy Read more
Delaware Prophet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...began preaching (c.1762) among the Delaware of the Muskingum valley in Ohio. He spoke against intertribal war, drunkenness, polygamy, and the use of magic, and he promised his hearers that if they would but heed his words the Native Americans would be strong... Read more
marriage
Book article from: World Encyclopedia marriage In the modern Western sense, the legal status of a man and a woman joined by ceremony as husband and wife. This is known as monogamy , but some societies practise polyandry (having more than one husband) and polygamy . Read more
Davis v. Beason
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...First Amendment. The Court then defined polygamy as conduct rather than religious belief...statute as a soapbox for a diatribe on polygamy, Justice Stephen J. Field concluded that...than religious liberty for believers in polygamy. “Religion” was defined... Read more
bigamy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1878 that plurality of wives (polygamy), as originally permitted by the Mormon religion, violated...exercise of religious liberty. The Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy in 1890, but the practice has persisted among some, although... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "polygamy"

Polygamy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History POLYGAMY POLYGAMY is defined as having more than one wife or husband at the same time, usually a man with several wives. Polygamy differs from bigamy in that the wives and children of the polygamist generally... Read more
polygamy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology polygamy In animals, a pattern of mating in which an individual has more than one sexual partner. See also POLYANDRY ; POLYGYNY ; PROMISCUITY . Read more
Marriage and divorce
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Marriage and divorce. Marriage is the union between at least two people (in polygamy and polyandry it may be more), in which commitment is made and responsibility undertaken. It is recognized and controlled in society... Read more
Reynolds v. United States
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...challenged a federal law that prohibited polygamy in the territories. He argued that his...Sarah Barringer. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Centu...Shira M. Diner See also First Amendment ; Polygamy . Read more
polyandry
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English pol·y·an·dry / ˈpälēˌandrē / • n. polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband.Compare with polygyny . ∎  Zool. a pattern of mating in which a female animal... Read more
polygyny
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...involved are sisters it is termed sororal polygyny. Some writers appear to use polygamy rather than polygyny to denote this kind of marriage, although strictly speaking, polygyny and polyandry are both versions of polygamy. Read more
polygamous
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xB7;lyg·a·mous / pəˈligəməs / • adj. practicing, relating to, or involving polygamy: polygamous societies. ∎  Zool. (of an animal) typically having more than one mate. ∎  Bot... Read more
Mormons
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...of Mormon. In 1843 Smith had another revelation sanctioning polygamy. Brigham Young, Smith's successor as President, in 1847 moved their headquarters to Salt Lake Valley in Utah. The practice of polygamy brought them into conflict with the Federal Government until... Read more
sexuality
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...d's design for humanity. It is good; and it is necessary for the continuation of the race. It is expressed in OT narratives in polygamy (1 Kgs. 11: 1–3), concubinage (Gen. 16: 1–4), and Levirate marriage (Deut. 25: 5–10). Divorce was permissible... Read more
family
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...monogamy is alien to part of the OT. The founder of the nation, Abraham , had two wives (Gen. 16) but by the time of the monarchy polygamy, common in earlier ages, was limited to the royal household. Each ordinary family was a self-sustaining economic unit; food... Read more

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Polygamy in African fiction.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Abstract Polygamy in the form of polygyny is still practised...article examines the rhetoric surrounding polygamy in a number of African texts, including...stability and order of traditional African polygamy, the overwhelming majority indict the... Read more
Two mommies and a daddy.(THE FUTURE OF POLYGAMY)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 7/25/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Newsweek, headlined Polygamists Unite! quotes a polygamy activist saying, Polygamy is the next civil rights battle. He argues, If...Times devoted much attention to the subject of polygamy. One article featured several polygamous women... Read more
Polygamy, impunity and human rights.(OPINION)
Magazine article from: Inroads: A Journal of Opinion; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Polygamy has been illegal in Canada since 1890. It was criminalized soon after Charles O. Card...Latter-day Saints went to Ottawa to ask Sir John A. Macdonald to allow them to practise polygamy. The Prime Minister said no. Parliament approved the anti-polygamy law the same year that Utah outlawed plural ... Read more
Polygamy: does the Supreme Court have its limits?
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...spreading the idea among fellow atheists that polygamy cannot be prohibited in order to protect...and xenophobia. Our criminalization of polygamy is not about protecting women. She was...article The constitutional challenge of polygamy , The Lawyers Weekly, April 17. Baines... Read more
Polygamy case may test limits of Canadian same-sex marriage law.(CENTURY news)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 2/24/2009; 424 words ; ...marriage also justifies the practice of polygamy. The defense lawyer for a British Columbia...Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects polygamy under the principles of equality and...permit immigrants from countries where polygamy is legal to maintain multiple spouses... Read more
With the debut of HBO's new polygamy television drama, Big Love, it's getting tougher to laugh off the argument that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy, polyamory, and ultimately to the replacement of marriage itself by an infinitely flexible partnership system.(The Week)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/10/2006; 162 words ; * With the debut of HBO's new polygamy television drama, Big Love, it's getting...argument that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy, polyamory, and ultimately to the replacement...Big Love makes a point of comparing polygamy to the drive for gay marriage, arguing... Read more
YEMEN: WORKSHOP DISCUSSES POLYGAMY.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 4/15/2004; 64 words ; A workshop on polygamy in Aden concluded Wednesday recommended...women and discouraging the phenomenon of polygamy. The participants highlighted the need...research centers to gather more data about polygamy in Yemen. SABA reported that the workshop... Read more
Canada threatened with polygamy.(Canada)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 1/1/2008; 408 words ; ...Under Section 293 of the Criminal Code, polygamy has been illegal since 1892 but there...U.S.A. after the main group abolished polygamy in 1890 (Editor: Despite their name...he recommended that the legality of polygamy in Canada should be referred by the provincial... Read more
Polygamy not protected by constitution, Utah court rules.(Around The States)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Church & State; 10/1/2004; 236 words ; ...has ruled that the state's law banning polygamy does not violate a practicing polygamist...2001 of violating the state law against polygamy but appealed the conviction arguing that...applied to all individuals who engage in polygamy regardless of their religious intentions... Read more
Polygamy On The Pedernales.(Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch; 9/1/2006; ; 163 words ; Polygamy On The Pedernales Melvin C. Johnson Utah State University Press 7800 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-7800 0874216281(pb) 0874216273 (cloth) $21.95(pb) $39.95 (cloth) 1-800-621-2736 www.usu.edu/usupress Polygamy On The Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 by Melvin C. ... Read more