Nor does he explore, in any meaningful way, the contrast between the advance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints around the world as a church of the upwardly mobile and the respectable middle class, and the extremism of the church's American fundamentalists.

ECONOMIST: Mormons who murder

Even today fully one-quarter of the residents belong to just two denominations, the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

CNN: For better or worse

Hospital and law enforcement officials remain tight-lipped about the condition of Warren Jeffs, the jailed president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), the nation's largest polygamist group.

NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized