Touchdown Jesus

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.

R. Laurence Moore is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies / History and Chair of the American Studies Program at Cornell University.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction What Is Different about Religion in the United States

1

(10)

Touchdown Jesus and Other Controversies about the Public Display of Religion

11

(20)

Post-Protestant Culture: Was There Ever Anything Else?

31

(18)

A Protestant (Counter) Culture

49

(20)

American Religion and the Second Sex

69

(20)

The African Future of Christianity

89

(20)

Immigrant Religion and the Right to Be Different

109

(20)

Science and the Battle for the Souls of Children

129

(20)

America's Therapeutic Culture: The Quest for Wholeness

149

(20)

Evangelizing the World in This Generation: American Religious Triumphalism and the Turn Toward Politics

169

(22)

Index

191

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