Art is an American religious historian who specializes in religion and sports, religion in the American South, and civil religion. Art's book Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era won the 2012 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society. Adapting to a blog form and being able to help with discussion or even just a thirty minute read that someone could come across and understand more or even heal a piece of themselves in more than a standard religious text.
