The 2008 government raid on a community of fundamentalist Mormon polygamists in Texas not only brought the unusual phenomenon of polygamy before the American public, but also generated a new kind of activism and other changes in practices among these isolated religious communities, according to a new book.
Cardell Jacobson and Lara Burton (Eds.), Modern Polygamy in the United States: Historical, Cultural, and Legal Issues, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 384 p.