In Sacred Loneliness

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Contents 1 About this work 2 Claims made in this work 3 Endnotes 4 Reviews of this work 5 Further reading 5.1 FAIR web site 5.2 FAIR wiki articles

About this work

Author: Todd Compton

Claims made in this work

Index of claims

Endnotes

Reviews of this work

• Reviews of In Sacred Loneliness:
  • Richard Lloyd Anderson and Scott H. Faulring, "The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives (Review of In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith)," FARMS Review of Books 10/2 (1998): 67–104. off-site PDF link
  • Alma G. Allred, “Variations on a Theme,” Presentation to Mormon History Association, 1999, updated on-line version of 6 December 1999. PDF link
  • Danel W. Bachman, “’Let No One…Set On My Servant Joseph’: Religious Historians Missing the Lessons of Religious History,” Presentation to Mormon History Association, 22 May 1999.
  • Danel W. Bachman, "Prologue to the Study of Joseph Smith's Marital Theology (Review of In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith)," FARMS Review of Books 10/2 (1998): 105–137. off-site PDF link
  • Kathryn Daynes, “Review of In Sacred Loneliness,” Pacific Historical Review 68 (August 1999): 466–468.
  • Todd Compton's response to Anderson and Faulring off-site
  • Todd Compton's response to Jerald and Sandra Tanners' Review of In Sacred Loneliness off-site

Further reading

• Suzanne Armitage, O that my voice could reach the ears of those uninformed and misinformed.

FAIR web site

FAIR wiki articles

Critical Works

• Richard Abanes
  • One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims)
  • Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Inside Today's Mormonism (2007 re-issue of Becoming Gods)
• Will Bagley
  • Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• Fawn McKay Brodie
  • No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
• Todd Compton
  • In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
• Ed Decker
  • The God Makers (film)
• Dan Erickson
• Norman L. Geisler
  • "Scripture," in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
• Hurlbut-Howe affidavits
  • The_Hurlbut_affidavits
• Ronald V. Huggins
  • From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
• Charles Larson
  • By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
• Bob McCue
• McKeever & Johnson
  • Mormonism 101
• Christopher Marc Nemelka
  • The "Lost 116 pages"
  • The "Sealed Portion"
• Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
  • Mormon Enigma
• Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
  • Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
• Grant Palmer
  • An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims)
• D. Michael Quinn
  • Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
  • "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
  • Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example
• George D. Smith
  • Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims)
• Carol Whang Shutter
  • September Dawn (film)
• Simon G. Southerton
  • Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
• Jerald and Sandra Tanner
  • The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Mormonism: Shadow or Reality?