Synopsis
In Salt Lake City, Utah, Pete Owen-Jones discusses how Mormonism adapted Christianity by putting America at the centre of the Christian story.
- Programme: Around the World in 80 Faiths
- Episode: United States of America
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2009
- Religious Education
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