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- Title
"Every Family Become a School of Abominable Impurity": Incest and Theology in the Early Republic.
- Authors
CONNOLLY, BRIAN
- Abstract
The article focuses upon religious disputations among Protestants and Protestant clergy during the antebellum period in the U.S. regarding the religious doctrines surrounding incest and marriage to a deceased wife's sister, generally known as the marriage question. It considers how the religious laws based on biblical readings of Leviticus did not always align with the civil laws of the states. Other subjects include the interdenominational nature of the debate; the social, cultural, and political impact of the debate; and the idealization of family life during the period.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MARRIAGE with deceased wife's sister; RELIGIOUS disputations; AFFINITY (Law); IMPEDIMENTS to marriage; PROTESTANT churches &; state; ENGLISH literature; PROTESTANT doctrines; INCEST; UNITED States religions; PROTESTANT authors; RELIGION; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Journal of the Early Republic, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 3, p413
- ISSN
0275-1275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jer.2010.0005