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In framing polygamy as both a society structure and a religious practice, Ulrich shows how Mormon women, many of whom were involved in polygamous relationships, became actively involved in political and social causes. [a] Ulrich argues that polygamy empowered women to become political actors, particularly in the suffrage movement. Ulrich also ...
The church teaches that in addition to civil marriage, which ends at death, a man and woman can enter into a celestial marriage, performed in a temple by priesthood authority, whereby the marriage and parent–child relationships resulting from the marriage will last forever in the afterlife. [2]
Secret Ceremonies was generally well received by critics.Kirkus Reviews called it, "A candid, often startling memoir of the author's life as a Mormon wife .... By no means objective, then, but, still, an affectingly personal look into the well-guarded citadel of Mormondom."
Writing in Religion News Service, Jana Riess characterizes Secret Ceremonies as a "go-for-the-jugular exposé" typical of the ex-Mormon memoirs of her era. [5] Shortly after the book's publication Laake was excommunicated for apostasy because of her criticisms and also for her "detailed revelation of top-secret Mormon temple ceremonies". [6]
Latter-day Woman: 1986–? bimonthly journal Mormon Women Latter-Day Woman, Inc. Sandy, Utah: Currently, there is an unrelated online magazine using a similar name: Latter-day Woman Magazine. Vision: 1989–current quarterly magazine Restoration Branch messages and news Price Publishing Independence, Missouri [58] [59] Nauvoo Journal: 1989–1999
Exponent II is a quarterly periodical that publishes essays, poetry, and art created by women and gender minorities on the Latter-day Saint spectrum. Exponent II was founded in 1974, "poised on the dual platforms of Mormonism and Feminism...to strengthen The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to encourage and develop the talents of Mormon women."
The LDS Church does not recognize trans women as women, but defines gender as the "biological sex at birth". [1] The church teaches that if a person is born intersex, the decision to determine the child's sex is left to the parents, with the guidance of medical professionals, and that such decisions can be made at birth or can be delayed until medically necessary.
[W]e honor woman when we acknowledge Godhood in her eternal prototype." [29]: 79 Some church leaders have interpreted the term "God" to represent the divinely exalted couple with both a masculine and feminine half. Erastus Snow, an early Mormon apostle, wrote " 'do you mean we should understand that Deity consists of a man and woman?' Most ...