文档介绍：Modern Polygamy in
the United States
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Modern Polygamy in
the United States
Historical, Cultural, and Legal Issues
edited by cardell k. jacobson
with lara burton
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3
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Modern polygamy in the United States : historical, cultural, and legal issues /
edited by Cardell K. Jacobson with Lara Burton.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-19-974637-8; 978-0-19-974638-5 (pbk.) 1. Polygamy—Religious
aspects—Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
2. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 3. Polygamy—
United States. I. Jacobson, Cardell K., 1941– II. Burton, Lara.
2010
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Contents
Contributors, vii
Fundamentalist Mormon and FLDS Time Line, xi
Prologue: The Incident at Eldorado, Texas, xvii
Cardell K. Jacobson and Lara Burton
Part I: Historical and Cultural Patterns of Polyga