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Kidnapped from that Land

The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists

By: Martha Sonntag Bradley

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Kidnapped from that Land

The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists

By: Martha Sonntag Bradley

At dawn, several hundred police and government officials closed in on a fundamentalist religious settlement in the southwest desert to serve warrants and rescue the children from bondage and immorality. That was in 1953 at the Mormon community in Short Creek, Arizona. Bradley (history, Brigham Young U.) gives an account of that raid and the two previous ones, in 1935 and 1944, with a sympathetic focus on the disruption of the community and the separation of the families. She also considers the legal issues around polygamy then and now. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Utah Press

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0874805287

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9780874805284

Polygamy in the Monogamous World

Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy

By: Martha Bailey,Amy J. Kaufman

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Polygamy in the Monogamous World

Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy

By: Martha Bailey,Amy J. Kaufman

This fact-filled book on polygamy and plural unions around the world supports an in-depth consideration of policy options for Western countries. Polygamy and plural marriage have become front-and-center issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States, notably on two religious fronts: among some splinter groups of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in Islam. Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy takes both groups into account as it provides a careful examination of legal polygamy in non-Western countries and plural unions in North America. Comparing these similar, but legally distinct forms of union, it offers a fresh perspective on how Western countries should respond to these relationships. Specifically, the book surveys non-Western countries where polygamy is legally practiced, then provides an overview of plural unions in North America. The problems of polygamy and plural unions are examined, including the potential for tne abuse of wives. The responses of Western governments to such relationships are reviewed, and the most effective solutions are identified to ascertain what policies should be adopted going forward.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216130239

Plural Wife

The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred

By: Mabel Finlayson Allred,Martha Bradley-Evans

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Plural Wife

The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred

By: Mabel Finlayson Allred,Martha Bradley-Evans

Mabel Finlayson Allred was a wife of Rulon Allred, leader of the Apostolic United Brethren, one of the major groups of fundamentalist Mormons who, since about the 1930s, have practiced plural marriage as separatists from the mainstream Latter-day Saints Church. Mabel’s autobiography maintains a mood of everyday normalcy strikingly in contrast with the stress of the ostracized life she was living. Her cheerful tone, expressive of her wish to live simply and gracefully in this world, is tempered by more somber descriptions of her personal struggle with clinical depression, of Rulon Allred’s inner struggles, of tensions with the law and with Allred’s fundamentalist colleagues, and ultimately by her forthright account of his assassination. Emerging from this unique narrative is the portrait of a woman buoyed by faith in both her religion and her husband, a window into the interior life of a woman seeking a resilient simplicity in an uncommonly challenging life. Plural Wife, conntextualized by Martha Bradley’s introduction, gives us insight into Mabel’s experience of history during an important period of the 20th century and advances our understanding of life ways of 20th century polygamy and the growth of the fundamentalist movement.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457184648

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9781457184642

Kidnapped from that Land

The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists

By: Martha Sonntag Bradley

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Pedestals and Podiums

Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights

By: Martha Sonntag Bradley

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Pedestals and Podiums

Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights

By: Martha Sonntag Bradley

This is a look back to the 1970's beginnings of the women's movement and what preceded it in the history of the LDS church with regard to women's rights within that church, the state of Utah, and across the country. It is an interesting and fascinating story, superbly documented, with equally engrossing views from both sides of the controversies, showing how a once radical church became a bast ion of conservatism.

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1560853018

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