{"id":49,"date":"2008-12-30T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T17:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2008\/12\/nauvoo-polygamy.html"},"modified":"2008-12-30T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T17:42:53","slug":"nauvoo-polygamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2008\/12\/nauvoo-polygamy.html","title":{"rendered":"Nauvoo Polygamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped a new book into slot one of my Now Reading list (on the sidebar), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1560852011\/davesmormonin-20\">Nauvoo Polygamy: &#8220;&#8230;&nbsp;but we called it celestial marriage&#8221;<\/a>, by George D. Smith. The title is certainly an orthographic challenge. I&#8217;ll save my own substantive comments for a later post (after I&#8217;ve read more of the book), but here are several posts from other blogs that have already discussed the book.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Juvenile Instructor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juvenileinstructor.org\/benchmark-books-lecture-george-smith-on-nauvoo-polygamy\/\">a transcription of remarks<\/a> delivered by the author on Dec. 10, 2008 at Benchmark Books in Salt Lake City, along with a Q&amp;A session.<\/li>\n<li>At By Common Consent, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bycommonconsent.com\/2008\/12\/nauvoo-polygamy-some-thoughts\/\">Nauvoo Polygamy: Some Thoughts<\/a>,&#8221; expressing some disappointment in the book but providing a fairly comprehensive chapter-by-chapter overview.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bycommonconsent.com\/2008\/12\/follow-up-thoughts-on-nauvoo-polygamy\/\">Follow-Up Thoughts on Nauvoo Polygamy<\/a>,&#8221; also at BCC, an ambitious attempt to provide context to (if not a defense of) polygamy as practiced in Nauvoo and as documented in the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped a new book into slot one of my Now Reading list (on the sidebar), Nauvoo Polygamy: &#8220;&#8230;&nbsp;but we called it celestial marriage&#8221;, by George D. 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