Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1993 · 278 citations · 0 references
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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.