Mormons and the polygamy

The bachelor thesis applies to polygyny in Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-Day Saints, its past and present. It contains part which describes history of church, because it is significant for the very evolution of polygyny and the attention is especially given directly to history of polygyny. There are not many sources in Czech language, which describe the theme of thesis and that is why the foreign language sources had to be used. Then the members of church were asked to answer questions prepared in advance and they also spoke freely about that theme. The method used for gaining informations from church members was interview, which technique was personal meeting. The answers from this interviews are included in the whole thesis, mostly in the part of research for which they are main source of information. The thesis is not only theoretic and its contribution is not merely composing little known theme. But its main benefits are answers of informers, which help to specificate and complete the view of this problem in the present