Religion only seems to run American politics
The American political body has an ecumenical soul. The book of essays examines the roots of the unique separation of church and state, and the religious language used to describe American values. We swing from Old Testament to New Testament, from prophetic to priestly, and as the pendulum swings from one to the other, we still define ourselves in a unique blending of the religious and the secular.
This book has been used as a college text and I highly recommend it to anyone who is trying to make sense of the religious right and their counterpart, the religious left.
