Indigenous American religious movements and successful entertainment ventures may have more in common than one might think. HBO’s well received Big Love has been nominated for Golden Globes and Emmys since its debut in 2006. Sister Wives, a TLC-produced reality show about the polygamist Brown family, drew roughly 2.5 million viewers in 2010. Then, of course, came the improbable success of the South Park writers-helmed Book of Mormon on Broadway, named after the religious text Mark Twain deemed “chloroform in print.”
