"This well-balanced collection by historians, social scientists, and legal scholars, most of them established experts, provides a comprehensive treatment of the FLDS and other contemporary polygamous cultures in North America. The authors examine religious and other rationales for this way of life that are offered by both male and female participants, and present candid critiques both of the polygamous communities and of their antagonists in law enforcement and in the mass media."
--Armand L. Mauss, author of The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
"At last some light, not just heat about America's new polygamy scandal, its roots and ramifications. Both well reasoned and well written, this book shows the people and the principles at stake. It will change how you think about both."
--Kathleen Flake, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Vanderbilt University
"Modern Polygamy in the United States is an outstanding book. Together, these authors provide a much-needed understanding of the surprisingly large number of groups and individuals who live the polygamous life style in the United States."--Vickie Cleverley Speek, the Association for Mormon Letters
"Together, these authors provide a much-needed inderstanding of the surprisingly large number of groups and individuals who live the polygamous life style in the United States. I just wish it had a different title"--Vickie Cleverly Speek, Association for the Morman Letters
"Modern Polygamy in the United States...is itself a product of the new scholarly attention that Mormon fundamentalism has attracted since the 2008 raid"--Richard Cimino, Religioscope
"Modern Polygamy provides a good desciption and analysis of the most recent battle concerning the practive of plural marriage and demonstrates why nineteenth century polygamy is still relevant in the current debate concerningmarriage relationships."--M
