With more than 850 Christian cowboy ministries worldwide and approximately 160 individual cowboy churches in Texas, the cowboy church movement is an immensely important religious movement that speaks volumes about contemporary culture. Cowboy churches\u27 Low Barriers Model Christianity attracts many disenchanted with traditional evangelicalism\u27s assumed sterilized and feminized religion. Despite the cowboy church movement\u27s exponential growth since the late-1980s, few outside the movement understand the complexity cowboy churches envelop. Using Cowboy Christians\u27 oral histories, Jake McAdams argues that the cowboy church movement is a suburban seeker church movement centered around the mythic cowboy identity in which participants have a sincere religious experience. Gaining invaluable primary sources and understanding the cowboy church movement in its historical contexts provides a voice to Conboy Christians and allows interested individuals to better understand the complexities of contemporary Texas and American society
