Editing Mormonism and polygamy (section)

==== Women's place in heaven ====
Latter-day Saints believed that a woman could secure her place in heaven by being sealed to a righteous man who held the priesthood. Some women embraced polygamy because of this teaching and their desire to receive divine blessings.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Ulrich |first=Laurel Thatcher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/955274387 |title=A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870 |publisher=Knopf |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-307-59490-7 |edition=1st |oclc=955274387}}</ref>{{rp|132}} The salvation of women was understood to be dependent on their status as wives.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gordon |first=Sarah Barringer |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51831976 |title=The Mormon question : polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America |date=2002 |isbn=0-8078-7526-0 |oclc=51831976|page =98|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press }}</ref>