The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
Kathleen Flake
Series: Arrington Lecture Series
Copyright Date: 2010
Published by: University Press of Colorado,
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6
Pages: 22
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgkc6
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The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
Book Description:

Kathleen Flake, associate professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University examines the logic of those women who thrived, rather than suffered, in early Mormon polygamy, and finds that the marriage covenant granted them priestly rights and independence through the powers of heaven.

eISBN: 978-0-87421-803-9
Subjects: Religion, Sociology
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-ii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6.1
  2. Introduction
    Introduction (pp. iii-iv)
    F. Ross Peterson
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6.2

    The establishment of a lecture series honoring a library’s special collections and a donor to that collection is unique. Utah State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library houses the personal and historical collection of Leonard J. Arrington, a renowned scholar of the American West. As part of Arrington’s gift to the university, he requested that the university’s historical collection become the focus for an annual lecture on an aspect of Mormon history. Utah State agreed to the request and in 1995 inaugurated the annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture.

    Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives is ideally suited as the host...

  3. About the Author
    About the Author (pp. v-v)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6.3
  4. [Illustration]
    [Illustration] (pp. vi-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6.4
  5. The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
    The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage (pp. 1-16)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6.5

    The nineteenth century in America was increasingly a time of high romance and low tolerance for Mormonism. Tonight I will discuss the relationship between these trends to better understand the logic of the Saints’ marital practices.¹ First, though, let me pause to say a few things about logic. Logic is not an absolute but rather a set of assertions based upon specific premises or assumptions. People who share premises will find the ideas and actions that flow from them logical, while people who don’t will find these same ideas and actions illogical, even wrong. This is most obvious when it...

  6. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 17-17)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkc6.6