Multiply and Replenish
Mormon Essays on Sex and Family

edited by
Brent Corcoran

Signature Books; Salt Lake City, Utah
© 1994 by Signature Books.

Table of Contents:

1. Between Heaven and Earth: Mormon Theology of the Family in Comparative Perspective Lawrence Foster

2. Changing Perspectives on Sexuality and Marriage Klaus J. Hansen

3. "They Shall Be One Flesh": Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism Romel W. Mackelprang

4. The Persistence of Chastity: Built-in Resistance in Mormon Culture to Secular Trends Harold T. Christensen

5. Exhortations for Chastity: A Content Analysis of Church Literature Marvin Rytting

6. Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage Eugene England

7. "The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature": A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840-1980 Rocky O'Donovan

8. Gender and Spirit Jeffrey E. Keller

9. Ethical Issues in Reproductive Medicine: A Mormon Perspective Lester E. Bush

10. Single Cursedness: An Overview of LDS Authorities' Statements about Unmarried People Marybeth Raynes and Erin Parsons

11. A Lone Man in the Garden Delmont R. Oswald

12. In Defense of Mormon Erotica Levi S. Peterson

13. The Demography of Utah Mormons Tim Heaton

Epilogue: Mormon Ideas of Home Stephen L. Richards

Contributors

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[p.271]Contributors

LESTER E. BUSH, M.D., is author of Health and Medicine among the Latter-day Saints: Science, Sense, and Scripture, part of a multi-volume series on "Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions," sponsored by the Park Ridge Center, Chicago, Illinois. "Ethical Issues in Reproductive Medicine: A Mormon Perspective" first appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18 (Summer 1985): 42-66.

HAROLD T. CHRISTENSEN is professor emeritus of sociology at Purdue University. "The Persistence of Chastity: Built-in Resistance in Mormon Culture to Secular Trends" was first published in Sunstone 7 (Mar.-Apr. 1982): 7-14.

EUGENE ENGLAND is a professor of English at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, author of The Quality of Mercy: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience, and co-editor of An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris. "On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage" first appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20 (Summer 1985): 42-66.

LAWRENCE FOSTER is a professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Altanta, and author of Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons. "Between Heaven and Earth: Mormon Theology of the Family in Comparative Perspective" was first published in Sunstone 7 (July-August 1982): 6-13.

KLAUS J. HANSEN is a professor of history at Queen's University, [p.272]Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and author of Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History and Mormonism and the American Experience, as well as numerous articles on Mormonism and American social and cultural history. "Changing Perspectives on Sexuality and Marriage" first appeared as chapter five in Hansen's Mormonism and the American Experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 147-78.

TIM B. HEATON is a professor of sociology at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and co-editor of Utah in Demographic Perspective. "The Demography of Utah Mormons" was first published in chapter thirteen of Utah in Demographic Perspective (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1986), 181-93.

JEFFREY E. KELLER, M.D., is an emergency physician in Idaho Falls, Idaho. "Gender and Spirit" first appeared as "Question: Is Sexual Gender Eternal?" and "When Does the Spirit Enter the Body" in Sunstone 10 (Nov. 1985): 38-39, and 10 (Mar. 1985): 42-44.

ROMEL W. MACKELPRANG, D.S.W., is an associate professor of social work, Eastern Washington University, and editor of Sexuality and Disabilities: A Guide for Human Service Professionsals. "'They Shall Be One Flesh': Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism" was first published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 25 (Spring 1992): 49-67.

ROCKY O'DONOVAN, founding director of the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Utah, is a freelance writer and activist living in southern Utah. "'The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature': A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840-1980," is published here for the first time.

DELMONT R. OSWALD is executive director of the Utah Humanities Council and past president of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. "A Lone Man in the Garden" first appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 23 (Spring 1990): 139-46.

ERIN PARSONS is news director for WMXN radio station in Norfolk, [p.273]Virginia. "Single Cursedness: An Overview of LDS Authorities' Statements about Unmarried People" was first published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Fall 1983): 35-45.

LEVI S. PETERSON is a professor of English at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, and author of The Canyons of Grace, Night Soil, The Backslider, and Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian. "In Defense of a Mormon Erotica" first appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20 (Winter 1987): 122-27.

MARYBETH RAYNES is a clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah, and co-editor of Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation. "Single Cursedness: An Overview of LDS Authorities' Statements about Unmarried People" was first published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16 (Fall 1983): 35-45.

STEPHEN L RICHARDS (1879-1959) was a member of Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and head of its missionary program. "Mormon Ideas of Home" was first delivered as a CBS radio address on 16 June 1935 and was later published in pamphlet form.

MARVIN RYTTING is a social psychologist with a keen interest in intimacy, sexulaity, and family issues. He is currently publishing Market Psychology while on leave from his professiorial duties. "Exhortations for Chastity: A Content Analysis of LDS Church Literature" was first published in Sunstone 7 (Mar.-Apr.): 15-21.