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Articles about Plural marriage

Doctrinal foundation of plural marriage	Purpose of plural marriage Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation Plural marriage in early Christianity Plural marriage in the Book of Mormon Plural marriage and the Bible
Introduction of plural marriage	Initiation of the practice of plural marriage 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife Joseph Smith hid polygamy from the general Church membership Divine manifestations to plural wives and families Plural marriage and the law
Questions about Joseph Smith and plural marriage	Initiation of the practice of plural marriage Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife Joseph Smith hid polygamy from the general Church membership Joseph Smith's marriage to young women Did Joseph Smith coerce women to marry him? Mormon women refusing offers of plural marriage Polyandry Joseph Smith and children through plural marriage Joseph Smith was sealed to other men's wives Joseph Smith hiding plural marriages from his first wife, Emma Emma Smith's reaction to Joseph Smith's plural marriages Emma Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 132 Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to steal their wives? Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy for the purpose of monetary gain?
Notable plural wives of Joseph Smith	Fanny Alger Prescindia Lathrop Huntington Buell Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Helen Mar Kimball
Plural marriage in Utah	Difficulties with plural marriage Brigham Young's statements regarding plural marriage John Taylor's statements regarding polygamy Latter-day Saints and divorce in the nineteenth century Prevalence of plural marriage in Utah
End of plural marriage	The First Manifesto Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto The Church of Jesus Christ and plural marriage today

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Articles about various topics in plural marriage

Essays on plural marriage	Essays home page Beginnings of plural marriage Fanny Alger: Joseph's first plural wife Early womanizer? Illegal marriages in Ohio? Age of wives Children of polygamous unions Marrying other men's wives? Polyandry John C. Bennett
John C. Bennett and plural marriage	John C. Bennett prior to Nauvoo Bennett's brothel in Nauvoo Rise and Fall of Bennett Sarah Pratt Bennett and Prostitution Nancy Rigdon Sidney Rigdon and Bennett's charges Stealing missionary wives?

John C. Bennett

Polyandry

John C. Bennett Prior to Nauvoo

• John_C._Bennett_Prior_to_Nauvoo
• Brothel_at_Nauvoo
• Rise and Fall of Bennett
• Sarah Pratt
• Bennett and Prostitution
• Nancy Rigdon
• Sidney Rigdon and Bennett's charges

See also Brian Hales' discussion

Joseph Smith’s resumes practicing plural marriage--1841	Joseph's first plural marriage after Fanny Alger.
Changes in polygamy implementation after the angelic visit of February 1842	Joseph Smith made his second proposal to a previously unmarried woman in Nauvoo and the first proposal since his marriage to Louisa Beaman.
John C. Bennett Impacts the Secret Expansion of Plural Marriage	John C. Bennett arrived in Nauvoo in September of 1840 and stayed less than two years. In spite of his relatively brief time living among the Saints, his impact upon the secret expansion of plural marriage was immense.
Joseph Smith’s proposal to Nancy Rigdon	One unmarried woman Joseph approached was Nancy Rigdon, the nineteen-year-old daughter of his First Counselor in the First Presidency, Sidney Rigdon. The proposal turned out badly.
William and Jane Law and the Prophet
Plural Marriage and the Martyrdom
Did Joseph Smith Intend to Abandon Plural Marriage?	William Marks related that Joseph’s conversation denouncing plural marriage occurred “three weeks before his death” or around June 6. Perhaps Joseph had such a change of heart during the first week of June, but this seems unlikely and other parts of Marks’ recollection are implausible.

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Source(s) of the criticism:

Critical sources

Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1997), 190. ( Index of claims ) George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage" (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008), 1, 5, 65, 69-73, 114, 119, 122-125, 230, 243, 274, 309, 429. ( Index of claims , (Detailed book review)) Watchman Fellowship, The Watchman Expositor (Page 3)