Michelle Mueller

New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy

Polyamory, Polygamy, and Reality Television

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780367186906
• ISBN-10: 036718690X
• Artikelnr.: 62221873

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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