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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...spouses) is a subset of the crime of polygamy (having more than one spouse), and...states that separately criminalize both polygamy and bigamy, either crime is committed...
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.
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...governor, with orders to end Mormon polygamy. McKean's United States marshals rounded...Anti‐Mormon arguments termed polygamy socially destructive and accused the...
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...law reached its nadir over the issue of polygamy. By the mid-1800s, the Mormon Church...
Salt Lake City: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...political outrage at the Mormon practice of polygamy led to the so-called "Utah War" in...continued pressure, the practice of polygamy was officially stopped by the church...been a political lever in the national polygamy debate. The majestic Mormon Temple...
Tunisia: Personal Status Code
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...daring reforms embodied in the CPS concern polygamy, or the man's right to have as many as...marriage at will. The majalla outlawed polygamy altogether. It stated unequivocally that polygamy was forbidden. An attempt at marrying again...
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...than religious liberty for believers in polygamy. “Religion” was...
Joseph Smith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He had also arrived at a doctrinal position which permitted polygamy. He kept this potentially dangerous practice a secret, revealing...In 1844 an apostate published an exposé of Mormon polygamy. Smith ill-advisedly permitted his followers to destroy...
Brigham Young
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...superintendent of Indian affairs. When the Mormon practice of polygamy and a more general fear and hatred of Mormon power led to hostilities...United States. In his old age, he was arrested on charges of polygamy and murder, but he was acquitted and his influence increased...
family
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...extended through the acquisition of more than one spouse (polygamy and polygyny), or through the common residence of two or...ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, is often associated with polygamy (see marriage ). In Rome, the paterfamilias was the only...

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...
polygamy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology polygamy Although strictly speaking this term denotes the concurrent marriage of one sex to two or more members of the opposite sex, some writers appear to use it to mean marriage of one man with two or more women, which should properly be termed polygyny .
Latter-Day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of the Church to practice plural marriage (polygamy), based on precedents from the Old Testament...was discouraged after 1890. The War Against Polygamy In the late 1860s, a war against polygamy was unleashed in Utah Territory and other...
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...M. Diner See also First Amendment ; Polygamy .
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...unceasingly to divorce the memory of his father from the doctrine of polygamy and to make his denomination conform more readily to American...authorities in their prosecutions of the LDS church in Utah for polygamy. The reorganization adopted an orthodox notion of the Trinity...
Honor, Middle Eastern Notions of
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...provide a man with an argument for taking a second wife, since polygamy is sanctioned by Islam, and outlawed in the early twenty...attachment with them, and this also provides a rationale for polygamy. Beyond marriage, many customs in the Middle East have developed...
Church and State, Separation of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...second wife. Most Americans were bitterly critical of Mormon polygamy, and Reynolds was convicted under the bigamy statutes. On...unimpressed. It answered that Reynolds was free to believe in polygamy but was not free to act on his belief. If he did so, it pointed...
polygyny
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...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.
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...headquarters to Salt Lake Valley in Utah. The practice of polygamy brought them into conflict with the Federal Government until...
Smith v. Oregon Employment
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...aimed at religious conduct. The Court cited the 1879 case of Reynolds v. United States, which upheld the criminalization of polygamy, even as applied to individuals whose religion required it. Four Justices (Harry Blackmun, W. J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood...

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Polygamy was prominent in Romney's family tree
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/25/2007; ; 700+ words ; While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his church...great-great-grandfathers had 12. Polygamy was not just a historical footnote...years after LDS church leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after...
Polygamy in British Columbia
Magazine article from: Inroads; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Columbia government effectively legalized polygamy. It's not as if there was a groundswell of support for polygamy by individuals and the courts, as there...The RCMP investigated complaints of polygamy, in particular the forced marriages...
Polygamy big in presidential hopeful's family history
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 2/25/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...LAKE CITY -- While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon...his great-great grandfathers had 12. Polygamy was not just a historical footnote...six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal...
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...
Polygamy proves tough to prosecute in Utah
News Wire article from: University Wire; 4/29/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- Although polygamy is a constitutional violation, some...in prosecuting offenders strictly for polygamy. "Prosecution is a last priority when...will destroy a society quicker than polygamy," said Eric Peterson, a Washington...
COLUMN: Will polygamy eventually be decriminalized?
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/26/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Although it may seem outlandish that polygamy and homosexuality could be related...relationship would be decriminalized. Polygamy is not like gay marriage. Most would...beliefs believe it to be morally wrong. Polygamy, however, is a very different story...
Analysis: Existence of polygamy today, its history in the Mormon Church and the church's views on the practice
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 7/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Existence of polygamy today, its history in the Mormon Church...Neary, sitting in for Juan Williams. Polygamy, when a man has multiple wives, is...inspiration for their belief in the practice of polygamy. But Mormons banned polygamy in the...
Polygamy - who gets hurt, who benefits? Web site lists the advantages women can expect in a multi-wife marriage.(VARIETY)(Kim Ode)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 5/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...but a lot of people are following the polygamy trial of Tom Green - which sounds like...that's bound to follow. Green says polygamy is a religious issue - that having five...There is a clear subtext for fighting polygamy: the potential for welfare fraud, given...
VOA NEWS: ACCEPTANCE OF POLYGAMY SLOWLY CHANGES IN MUSLIM AFRICA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/12/2007; 700+ words ; ...Tran In some African Muslim countries, polygamy is still commonly practiced. According...tells her students they need to question polygamy from a religious point of view. "Islam is used always to justify the question of polygamy. In my opinion, Islam does not encourage...
The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Constitutional Commentary; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; THE MORMON QUESTION: POLYGAMY AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT IN NINETEENTH CENTURY...sentenced in August 2002 for violating Utah's anti-polygamy statute. For most Americans, polygamy is a bizarre fact. What type of man would want such...