Join Lindsay as she discusses the theories of mob psychology, mimetic violence, sacrifice, and how polygamous doctrine interacts with those theories.  

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  Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Milgram experiment
• Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
• The Scapegoat by Rene Girard
• Convergence Theory Intro
• FAIR Mormon Mountain Meadows Massacre Summary
• Gustav Le Bon’s The Crowd

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the fantastic and gruesome autobiography of the youngest wife of John D. Lee, Ann Gordge.  This episode contains strong themes of violence and listener discretion is advised.  

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  Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Ann’s Autobiography
• Ann’s short bio
• Playing With Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
• The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony
• Blood of the Prophets by Will Bagley
• Writing History, Writing Trauma
• Red Water by Judith Freeman

Join Lindsay as she interviews historian Joseph Geisner about 1850’s Utah including stories about Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell.  This episode contains strong themes of violence. This is part two of a two-part episode.   Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:  

• Housewives, Hussies, and Heroines, or the Women of Johnston’s Army
• The Coming Storm: The Murder of Jesse Thompson Hartley by H. Michael Marquardt
• Bigler Mormon Missionaries the Utah war and the 1858 Bannock Raid on Fort Limhi
• Bigler – A Lion in the Path UTAH WAR
• The Journals of Hannah Tapfield King
• “As a Bird Sings”: Hannah Tapfield King, Poetess and Pioneer Leonard Reed

       

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Join Lindsay as she discusses the first public acknowledgement of polygamy, divorces and marriages, the Early Utah Period, and Blood Atonement.

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• Read the transcript of this episode here. (h/t Kecia Gilliam)
• Sources for controversial sermons:  Journal of Discourses, vol.4, pp.49-51
• Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, 1856, pp. 55-57
• Dialogue:A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol.1, No.3, p.91-92
• Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here.
• Polygamy and widows notes

Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Hannah Ells.

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• Read the text of the post here.
• Buy the reading guide here.