On this episode, we finally dive into polygamy. We’re ramping up for polygamy in Nauvoo prior to April 1841, but before doing so we have to set the historical stage to understand the world from which Mormon polygamy evolved. We begin with marriage from the dawn of historical time and skim across the top of major world religions throughout most of written history to finally arrive at the post-enlightenment western world filled with small groups of free-love proto-hippies. This is part 1 of a multi-part series on Mormon polygamy.
Links:
Code of Ur Nammu
http://www.polk.k12.ga.us/userfiles/644/Classes/177912/Code%20of%20Ur-Nammu.pdf
History of Marriage – Alex Gendler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZ6QB5TSfk
1955 Hindu Marriage Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hindu_Marriage_Act,_1955
Polygamy in Judaism
http://www.benyehuda.us/poligamy.htm
1908 Jewish encyclopedia on Polygamy
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12260-polygamy
Saint Augustine On the Good of Marriage
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1309.htm
Adamite or Adamian free-love church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamites
History of United Methodist and Wesley Brothers
http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/roots
Quran Surah 4 an-Nisaa
https://quran.com/4
Polygyny in Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny_in_Islam
Martin Luther’s writings on Polygamy
http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2009/01/luther-i-confess-that-i-cannot-forbid.html
Martin Luther wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#Marriage
Munster Rebellion wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_rebellion
Free-love societies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_love
Polygamy vs. Monogamy population study
https://www.livescience.com/13010-polygamy-good-men-bad-women.html
William Blake Visions of the Daughters of Albion
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Visions_of_the_Daughters_of_Albion
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