Mormonism in American Grace

This is the second post on the book American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (see first post). The broad theme of the book is positive: despite high diversity and high religiosity, Americans manage to get along and generally avoid religious strife. But the book also shows that for more and more Americans, religion is less and less relevant. Politics, it seems, is what really animates and divides us. In this post I'll discuss what the book says about Mormonism in particular, most of that discussion coming in the religion and politics section of the book.