Mission and Menace: Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal Book

Chronology, 1607-2007     ix
Illustrations     xiii
Acknowledgments     xv
Introduction     1
Shaping Zealous Trajectories
Colonial Beginnings: The Millennial City Set upon a Hill     11
God's New Israel: The Theocratic Experiment and Its Deflation     28
The Great Awakening: Prelude to the American Revolution     44
The Post-Millennial Republic: The "New Order of the Ages"     67
The Second Great Awakening: New Denominations, Reforms, and the Pre-Millennial Reaction     87
Millennial Crises and the Rise of Fundamentalism
The Civil War: A Conflict over the Bible and Millennial Mission     115
Reconstruction and Racial Violence: Religion in Cultural Captivity     132
The Gilded Age and Millennial Destiny: War, Colonialism, and the Social Gospel     144
New Diversity: Emerging Fundamentalism and the World's Parliament of Religion     161
Three Millennial Crusades: Disappointment, the Red Scare, and the Crisis of Fundamentalism     182
Culture over Christ: Acculturation and the Decline of Mainline Churches     203
The Menace of Triumphant Civil Religion
Depression and World War: The Rise of Religious Replacement and Escapism     225
Cold War Religion: The Celebration of One Nation under God     245
Zealous NationalismOverwhelms Prophetic Realism: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Conservative Backlash     267
The Political Distortion of Religion: Impeachment and the War against Terrorism     279
Conclusion     293
Notes     305
Works Cited     335
Index of Names and Events     359