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

"Based on research Mueller conducted for over a decade, this is a book grounded in theory and empirical evidence. Perhaps wishing to include too much at times, this volume is still an exciting contribution to the study of contemporary American media and the representation and position of alternative faiths and lifestyles on American soil." - Iren E. Annus, University of Szeged

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

"Based on research Mueller conducted for over a decade, this is a book grounded in theory and empirical evidence. Perhaps wishing to include too much at times, this volume is still an exciting contribution to the study of contemporary American media and the representation and position of alternative faiths and lifestyles on American soil." - Iren E. Annus, University of Szeged

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

"Based on research Mueller conducted for over a decade, this is a book grounded in theory and empirical evidence. Perhaps wishing to include too much at times, this volume is still an exciting contribution to the study of contemporary American media and the representation and position of alternative faiths and lifestyles on American soil." - Iren E. Annus, University of Szeged