John R. Llewellyn is a retired Salt Lake County, Utah, sheriff’s lieutenant who extensively investigated polygamy cults. A former polygamist, he wrote Polygamy Under Attack: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell; A Teenager’s Tears: When Parents Convert To Polygamy; and Murder of a Prophet: The Dark Side of Utah Polygamy. Llewellyn is now a monogamist and muckraker, and he […]

Historian D. Michael Quinn is the author of several scholarly books about Mormons, including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature Books, 1998). In 1997, the American Historical Association gave him a best-book award for Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (University of Illinois Press, 1996). He has worked as an independent scholar since 1988, when […]

Kathryn Daynes is an assistant history professor at Brigham Young University in Utah with expertise on Mormon plural marriage. She wrote More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910 (University of Illinois Press, 2001).

Brahma Kumaris is a spiritual, educational institution that works to promote humanism, tolerance and enthusiasm for spreading Hinduism across the globe. The institute is located in India.

Read an April 8, 2008, article from the Associated Press (posted by the Washington Post) about the raid on the Texas polygamist compound.

The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture provides educational resources on religions around the world, including each of their different practices, beliefs and histories. It is based in Kolkata, India.

Read a Jan. 5, 2012, article from The Washington Post about Rick Santorum’s controversial comments on polygamy on the 2012 campaign trail.

Read a May 29, 2012, article from The Huffington Post about the state of Idaho’s reaction to Five Wives Vodka. Because of the polygamist undertones of the name and logo, the Idaho State Liquor Division banned the vodka.

Read a Feb. 19, 2009, article from Psychology Today about the appeal of polygamy from an evolutionary psychology perspective.