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Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy

Author:  Sanjiv Bhattacharya

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Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy

English

ISBN: 1593764537

EAN: 9781593764531

Category: Family & Relationships / Marriage/Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family/

Publisher: Soft Skull Press

Release Date: 05/01/2011

Synopsis:

What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists—not fictional ones like the Henrickson family on HBO’s Big Love? We’ve seen the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the news, the underage brides in pioneer dresses on a Texas ranch. But the FLDS is just one of many groups that have broken with mainstream Mormonism to follow those parts of Joseph Smith’s doctrine disavowed by the LDS Church.

Gaining unprecedented access to these communities, journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya reveals a shadow country teeming with small town messiahs, dark secrets, and stories both heartbreaking and strange. Polygamy’s dark side—incest, forced marriages, and physical abuse—is laid bare. But Bhattacharya also finds warmth in the fundamentalist diaspora and even finds himself taking an ideological stand for polygamy’s legalization.

More than just an expose of Mormon polygamy, Secrets and Wives is the personal journey of a foreign atheist and liberal, a stranger in a strange land who grapples with hard questions about marriage, monogamy, and the very nature of faith.

Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 352