What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

The origins of the first September 11 atrocity stem from the murder of Joseph Smith ... was the practice of polygamy and the belief that God had revealed to Smith a set of commandments inscribed ...

James Smith, the founder of Mormonism promoted polygamy and thus it was common ... became a devout follower of Joseph Smith's teaching and eventually became the Church's second president.

Brigham Young (1801-1877) was a central figure in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and ...

In contrast, resource-defense polygamy, where one sex -- usually but not always the male -- guards territories to attract mates, is highly unstable and often reverts to monogamy. "This research ...

Bird species were categorized into three mating systems—monogamy (strong and durable sociosexual bonds), resource-defense polygamy (weak and transient bonds) and lekking (absence of social bonds).

Inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph Smith founded the most widely-practiced religion founded in the United States, the Mormon faith. Trump signs executive order ...

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JAKARTA: New rules on polygamy among male civil servants in Jakarta seek to “impose stricter conditions” on the practice, the capital’s acting governor said on Monday (Jan 20) amid criticism ...

In contrast, resource-defense polygamy, where one sex — usually but not always the male — guards territories to attract mates, is highly unstable and often reverts to monogamy. “This research not only ...