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  2. Latter Day Saint polygamy in the late-19th century - Wikipedia

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    Latter Day Saints portal. v. t. e. Possibly as early as the 1830s, followers of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism ), were practicing the doctrine of polygamy or "plural marriage". After the death of church founder Joseph Smith, the doctrine was officially announced in Utah Territory in 1852 by Mormon leader Brigham Young.

  3. Mormonism and polygamy - Wikipedia

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    Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890 by between 20 and 30 percent of ...

  4. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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    On April 6, 1830, in western New York, [ 8] Smith organized the religion's first legal church entity, the Church of Christ. The church rapidly gained a following who viewed Smith as their prophet. In late 1830, Smith envisioned a "City of Zion", a utopian city in Native American lands near Independence, Missouri. [ 9]

  5. Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy - Wikipedia

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    In the late-nineteenth century, the origin of polygamy was one of the principal issues that the RLDS Church and the LDS Church used to assert one organization's legitimacy over the other. Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the LDS Church, stated in responding to the claim that polygamy originated with Brigham Young rather than Joseph Smith:

  6. Mormonism in the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    e. This is a chronology of Mormonism. In the late 1820s, Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, announced that an angel had given him a set of golden plates engraved with a chronicle of ancient American peoples, which he had a unique gift to translate. In 1830, he published the resulting narratives as the Book of Mormon and ...

  7. Polygamy in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The Twelfth Lambeth Conference held in 1988, in Resolution 26 – Church and Polygamy stated: This Conference upholds monogamy as God's plan, and as the ideal relationship of love between husband and wife; nevertheless recommends that a polygamist who responds to the Gospel and wishes to join the Anglican Church may be baptized and confirmed ...

  8. Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement

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    Polygamy is condemned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [2] Latter-day Saints believe that monogamy—the marriage of one man and one woman—is the Lord’s standing law of marriage. However, the LDS Church considers polygamy to have been a divinely inspired commandment that is supported by scripture; [3] today ...

  9. Polygamy in North America - Wikipedia

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    Polygamy is defined as the practice or condition of one person having more than one spouse at the same time, conventionally referring to a situation where all spouses know about each other, in contrast to bigamy, where two or more spouses are usually unaware of each other. [3] Polyandry is the name of the practice or condition when one female ...