Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American HistoryThis 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. |
Contents
What Is Different about Religion in the United States | 1 |
Touchdown Jesus and Other Controversies about the Public Display of Religion | 11 |
PostProtestant Culture Was There Ever Anything Else? | 31 |
A Protestant Counter Culture | 49 |
American Religion and the Second Sex | 69 |
5 The African Future of Christianity | 89 |
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References to this book
The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality Paul Heelas,Linda Woodhead No preview available - 2005 |