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Joanna Brooks

Joanna Brooks is an award-winning religion writer, co-editor of the just-released Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (Oxford UP), and a senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches.

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Joan of Arc, Burned at the Stake May 30, 1431

‘As the flames rose to her Roman nose and her Walkman started to melt’…
Joanna Brooks
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Homegoing: Historian Explores the World of African-American Funerals

Music and religion intertwined.
Joanna Brooks
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How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck

Some are familiar with Glenn Beck’s teary Mormon conversion story, but what many are not aware of is the extent to which Mormonism has given Beck key elements of his on-air personality and messaging—and how it may shape the future of American conservatism.
Joanna Brooks
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