'How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck'

In a piece about "the extent to which Mormonism has given [Glenn] Beck key elements of his on-air personality and messaging," writer Joanna Brooks says: "[Beck's popularity] marks an unprecedented national mainstreaming of a peculiar strand of religious political conservatism rooted in, and once isolated to, the Mormon culture regions of the American West. ... [I]f the American religious right has sometimes been imagined as a monolithic product of the evangelical Deep South and Bible Belt, the rise of Glenn Beck suggests that those who would understand American conservatism might also look West, toward Salt Lake City."