The present thesis is about the effects of leadership crises, destruction doctrine, and family rearrangement on the reaction of women in religiously taxing circumstances over the course of four decades, three prophets, two schisms, and many fauxpocalypses. While domesticity was their primary function, polygamous women under the three most recent prophets of the FLDS faced increased political arranged marriages, husband reassignment, dependency on the church, and familial estrangement during a leadership crisis with an underlying apocalyptic threat.
The patriarchal nature of this religious community altered the role women played in the 1970s and 1980s and developed through the 1990s and into the 2000s in Short Creek, Arizona.
Though their infamous leadership has brought negative attention to this religious movement under their current prophet Warren Jeffs, the leadership of previous prophets established foundations for many of the practices associated with the FLDS today. Arranged marriage, apocalyptic prophecy, and religious abuse are some of the most identifiable practices of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or FLDS.
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