Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U. S. Supreme Court Book

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: The Ties That Bind	1
Chapter 1	"In the Beginning Was the Word," 1620-1791	13
Chapter 2	Establishing the Parameters of Priestly Duties, 1790-1821	39
Chapter 3	Expounding the Holy Writ in Troubled Times, 1810-1860	69
Chapter 4	Interpreting New and Old Holy Books: Part I: Beginning to Widen the Civil Religious Community, 1860-1917	101
Chapter 5	Interpreting New and Old Holy Books: Part II: Protecting Property and Other Individual Rights in the Changing Economy, 1864-1917	135
Chapter 6	Responding to New Crises and Exploring the Implications of the Civil Theology, 1917-1941	169
Chapter 7	Searching for the Meaning of Loyalty within the American Civil Religion, 1940-1959	215
Chapter 8	Struggling to Equalize Justice and Expand the Civil Theology's Reach: Part I: The Matter of Race, 1954-1997	263
Chapter 9	Struggling to Equalize Justice and Expand the Civil Theology's Reach: Part II: Other Matters Including Gender and Sectarian Religion, 1962-1997	307
Chapter 10	Making the Scriptures on Individual Rights Nationally Operative, 1960-1997	351
	Conclusion: The Blessings of Liberty	399
	Notes	407
	Justices of the Supreme Court	465
	Case Index	469
	Subject Index	483
	About the Author	501