The Joseph Smith Papers by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richard Lyman Bushman, and Matthew J. Grow, and: Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831 ed. by Michael Hubbard McKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, and: Documents, Volume 2: July 1831–January ed. by Matthew C. Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley (review)

Minkema, Kenneth P.

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“…Additionally, the Joseph Smith Papers Project, a collaborative initiative by Brigham Young University and the LDS Church to provide access to a digital database of historical documents related to Smith's life commenced in 2001. 11 These records have provided scholars the opportunity to explore what was once considered to be controversial (and consequently concealed) aspects of Smith's life (Park, 2018;Hanks, 2017;Minkema, 2015).…”

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Tar & Feathers: Agnotology, Dissent, and Queer Mormon Polygamy

Bullock

2020

Intl. J. Rel.

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In 2014 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) updated their official website to include information about the polygamy/polyandry practiced by Joseph Smith, their founder and prophet, and his many wives. The admission by the LDS Church reconciles the tension between information that had become readily available online since the 1990s and church-sanctioned narratives that obscured Smith’s polygamy while concurrently focusing on the polygyny of Brigham Young, Smith’s successor. This paper entwines queer theory with Robert Proctor’s concept of agnotology—a term used to describe the epistemology of ignorance, to consider dissent from two interrelated perspectives: 1) how dissent from feminists and historians within the LDS Church challenged (mis)constructions of Mormon history, and; 2) how the Mormon practice of polygamy in the late nineteenth century dissented from Western sexual mores that conflated monogamy with Whiteness, democracy and social progression in the newly formed American Republic.

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Tar & Feathers: Agnotology, Dissent, and Queer Mormon Polygamy

Bullock

2020

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Abstract: The Joseph Smith Papers. General Editors Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richard Lyman Bushman, and Matthew J. Grow.

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