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Article: Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History.(Book Review)
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2004
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Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History. By R. Laurence Moore. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2003. x + 195 pp. $19.95 paper.
Religion, R. Laurence Moore argues, is always about something else. Following the passage of the First Amendment after the conclusion of the American Revolution, Moore contends, people's sense of the difference between the religious and secular widened considerably. Yet in a free society lacking an established church, religion organized itself in ways that resonated with the free market economy. Consequently, religion was naturally commodified. In Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in ...