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Article: Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in America History.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- June 22, 2004
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Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in America History. By R. Laurence Moore. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003. 195 pp. $19.95.
R. Laurence Moore has written a delightful, enlightening, and provocative survey of American church history centered around the theme of "mixing" the "sacred" with the "secular." Designed for the general reader, the topics covered include the polarization caused by the public display of religious symbols, the important contribution that women and Africans have made to the American religious mosaic, the harmony and friction that has existed between science and religion, the impact of immigration--Roman ...