Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West

Authors

Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:4 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Most studies linking region and religion have looked at New England, because of Puritanism's impact, or the South, because of the "Bible belt" image. A few have examined the Southwest, mostly to analyze Spanish influence in the age of colonial conquest. Kerstetter's work, however, joins an increasing number that focus on how region and religion are intertwined in the West. That alone makes it valuable.