How Mormon is the Twilight Saga?

Even if you aren't familiar with the Twilight books, you probably know someone who is.  The last book in the four book series, Breaking Dawn, sold 1.3 million copies on its first day alone.  The saga, about an ordinary teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire, has inspired fandom bordering on the obsessive.  One thing even many fans don't know, however, is that elements of author Stephanie Meyer's Mormon faith appear in the Twilight story.

Samira Mehta, Doctoral Candidate in American Religious Cultures at Emory University