Until the late 20th century, most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not realize that founder ...

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The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church's struggle to distance itself from plural marriage ...

SALT LAKE CITY – A new historical narrative posted by the Mormon church on its website officially acknowledges that some plural marriages were performed after an 1890 ban and that polygamy was widely ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. What was it like to be a Mormon woman in a polygamist marriage in 19th-century America? That's what historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explores in her new book "A ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced, a new church essay ...

(Reuters) - Polygamy, once hidden in the shadows of Utah and Arizona, is breaking into the open as fundamentalist Mormons push to have the practice decriminalized on religious grounds. The following ...

Most people think they know the basics about the Mormon Church. A few facts float around American culture – polygamy, missionaries in white shirts, no coffee – and most folks assume that’s the full ...

A new A&E documentary series is exposing the reality of life within several Mormon sects that still embrace polygamy – including one associated with the stars of TLC’s hit series Sister Wives. Through ...

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