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"Under the Banner" Improves, but Doesn't Sanitize, Book's Reductive History of Mormonism

by Benjamin E. Park

The new series raises questions about America's homegrown faith, and shakes off some of the source book's post-9/11 concerns with extremism and religious violence to show the complexity among different tendencies and branches of the faith. 

Rethinking Polygamy: An Interview with Sarah M.S. Pearsall

by Kyla Sommers

"Polygamy controversies place us amid major events in early America because such clashes were about the organization and governance not just of house- holds but of societies, nations, and empires.”

Mormons acknowledge early polygamy days at renovated museum

The Mormon church’s renovated history museum set to reopen this week features a small and surprising display about an uncomfortable part of the faith’s history that for generations has been glossed over: polygamy.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says bad marriages had women running to and away from Mormon polygamy

Her observations were made in the course of her presidential address to the Mormon History Association

It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Up to 40 Wives

Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.

Mormon Founder had Teen Bride During Polygamy Days

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old.

LDS Church details practice, history of polygamy

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a document about plural marriage on its website Monday.