Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. PAST AS PROLOGUE Latter-day Screens and History 1
5. INTRODUCTION “Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain’t We?”: Mediated Mormonism 13
6. 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic SPIRITUAL NEOLIBERALISM, IMAGE MANAGEMENT, AND TRANSMEDIATED SALVATION 49
7. 2. The Mormon Glow THERACED AND GENDERED IMPLICATIONS OF SPECTACULAR VISIBILITY 91
8. 3. The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MEDIATED MORMONISM AND THE PROMISES OF THE AMERICAN DREAM 120
9. 4. Polygamy USA VISIBILITY, CHARISMATIC EVIL, AND GENDER PROGRESSIVISM 162
10. 5. Gender Trouble in Happy Valley CHOICE, HAPPY AFFECT, AND MORMON FEMINIST HOUSEWIVES 201
11. 6. “Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away” CONSCIENCE AND THE QUEER POLITICS OF DESIRE 241
12. CONCLUSION Afterthoughts and Latter Days 276
13. EPILOGUE Mormons on My Mind, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Hegemony I Learned in Mesa, Arizona 284
14. NOTES 309
15. REFERENCES 329
16. MEDIA ARCHIVE 345
17. INDEX 361