Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History

by R. Laurence Moore

Overview

This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. R. Laurence Moore considers the ways nationalism, the separation of church and state, democratic pluralism, and shifts in boundaries between secular and sacred practice have shaped American religion for the past two hundred years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664223700
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	07/31/2003
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

R. Laurence Moore is Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.