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

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