JESUS IN AMERICA explores the role of the Christ figure in American history, with perspectives from sources as divergent as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and George W. Bush. The author begins with the early 17th-century effort by the Puritans to convert Native Americans to Christianity, and moves on to discuss the influence of Jesus on the abolition movement and the American Civil War, as well as on the cultural and social revolutions of the 1960s. His topics include the representation of Jesus in the movies, evocations of Jesus in American politics, and Jesus in American literature. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.