FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Glenn Beck's Mormon roots

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: October 10, 2009 2:29:18 PM CDT
>
> Humanist concerns about dangerous forms of religiosity too often  
> focus on evangelical Protestants, bypassing the disproportionate  
> role Mormons now play in the US cultural scene.
>
> Joanna Brooks (http://askmormongirl.blogspot.com/) reminds us of the  
> unique role of uniquely <American> religion (Harold Bloom's labeling).
>
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> http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religiousright/1885/how_mormonism_built_glenn_beck
>
> Bob