New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy

The book is the first full-length study informed by fieldwork with Mormon polygamists and fieldwork with LGBTQ Neo-Pagan/Neo-Tantric polyamorists and examines the relationship between alternative American religions and the media representation of non-monogamies on reality-TV shows.

Michelle Mueller teaches religion and ethnography, sociology of religion, and other courses at Santa Clara University. She is a faculty fellow of the college's Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Introduction: Researching "Swingers" and "Saints" on Exhibit; 1 Twenty-First Century Mormon Fundamentalism: Ethnographic Observations; 2 From Raids to Rallies: Polygamy, Class, and New Media; 3 Mormon Polygamist Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century; 4 Gnostic Esoterism in Mormon Fundamentalism; 5 Polyamory as Religious Sexual Counter-Culture: The New Charmed Circle; 6 Sisterhood, Patriarchy, and Bromance: New Perspectives on Gender, Labor, and Power in Polyamory and Polygamy; 7 Polygamy and Polyamory in the Era of The Bachelor: Intersectional Observations Regarding Religion, Media, and Society