Is Disney Utah’s True Religion?

City Cast Salt Lake

Many Utahns are known for their faith, but should they also be known for being Disney adults? Jodi Eichler-Levine, religion and culture professor at Lehigh University, joins host Ali Vallarta to analyze why Utahns relate so strongly to the Walt Disney experience and how it became its own sort of religion.

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