One State Under God: A History of Religion in Texas
A broad and accessible history of religion in Texas, from the cosmological rock art of the First Texans to the conservative politics of Christian nationalists
"A compelling chronicle of our religious landscape" - Texas Monthly / "A superb, compelling, essential account of how we got here" - Texas Observer
amazon.com | utpress.utexas.edu
Event Dates:
July 14, 6:00pm: Interabang Books, Dallas, Texas
July 15, 6:00pm: First Light Books, Austin, Texas
July 16, 6:30pm: Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas
July 17, 5:30pm: Twig Bookstore, San Antonio, Texas
September 25, 12:30: Texas Tribune Fest, Austin, Texas
November 14th/15th, tba: Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Publicity/Press
"Texas Wasn’t Always a Right-Wing Evangelical Powerhouse," Jacobin
"One State Under Whose God?", Texas Observer
"New Book Traces the Religious History of Texas," Texas Standard
"What to Read This Summer," Texas Monthly
"Texas Is One State Under God, But ...," The Austin Chronicle
Interview Segment, Houston Matters
"Jesus Is (More) Than Just Alright in Texas," Houston Press
"How Texas Got Religion," Texas Matters
"Running on Faith," KERA News
Associate Professor of American History at The University of North Texas.
Author of One State Under God: A History of Religion in Texas (University of Texas, 2026) and Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Co-creator of The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook (Stanford University Press, 2019/2026)
Email: josephllocke@gmail.com
CV (pdf): Curriculum Vitae
Joseph L. Locke
