RT Book
T1 New religions and the mediation of non-monogamy: polyamory, polygamy, and reality television
T2 Gender, theology and spirituality
A1 Mueller, Michelle
LA English
PP London New York, NY
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1773282808
AB New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy examines the relationship between alternative American religions and the media representation of non-monogamies on reality-TV shows like Sister Wives, Seeking Sister Wife, and Polyamory: Married & Dating. The book is the first full-length study informed by fieldwork with Mormon polygamists and fieldwork with LGBTQ Neo-Pagan/Neo-Tantric polyamorists. The book tracks community members' responses to the new media about them, their engagement with television and other media, and the likeness of representations to actual populations through fieldwork and interviews. The book highlights differences in socioeconomic privileges that shape Mormon polygamists' lives and LGBTQ polyamorists' lives, respectively. The polyamory movement receives support from liberal media. As reality TV has shifted the image of Mormon polygamy to one of liberal American middle-class culture, Mormon polygamists have gained in public favor. The media landscape of non-monogamy is mediated by, in addition to these alternative religious populations, the norms and practices of the reality-TV industry and by sociocultural and economic realities, including race and class. This book adds to the fields of media studies, critical race and gender studies, new religious movements, and queer studies
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HQ980.5.U5
SN 036718690X
SN 9780367186906
SN 9781032051673
SN 1032051671
K1 NON-monogamous relationships : United States
K1 NON-monogamous relationships : Religious aspects
K1 Interpersonal relations on television
K1 Reality television programs : United States
K1 Sexual minorities : United States
K1 Sexual minorities on television
K1 NON-monogamous relationships
K1 Reality television programs
K1 Sexual minorities
K1 United States