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The American Religion: The Emergence of a Post-Christian Nation
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1993
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American Religious ImaginationHumanitiesExistentialismNationalismReligion StudiesNational SoulBrilliant ExaminationAmerican IdentityChristian PracticeSpiritualityReligious SystemsReligious PluralismLanguage StudiesReligious GroupComparative ReligionAmerican Religion
The author of The Book of J analyzes the American religious imagination to produce this brilliant examination of a national soul. His consensus: America is a nation of Gnostics, believers in a pre-Christian tradition of individual divinity.