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American Mormon fundamentalists and the tradition of “historical” polygamy in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Journal: Studia Humanitatis (Vol.2018, No. 4)

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Page : 5-5

Keywords : history of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints; Mormon polygamy; Joseph Smith; Brigham Young; Mormon fundamentalists; polygamous sects in the USA in the early 21st century;

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Abstract

The article discusses the features of the tradition of polygamy developed in the American Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints in the 19th and early 20th centuries and continued by modern United States Mormon fundamentalist sects. Mormonism is a form of Americanized Christianity. Mormons played a significant role in the national history of the United States participating in colonization and settlement of the Far West. The Federal government in the last century and a half (since 1862) considered polygamy as a criminal act and refused to carry out the decriminalisation of this practice.

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