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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