Religion in American Politics: A Short History Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Providential and Secular America: Founding the Republic 14

Chapter 2 Elusive Protestant Unity: Sunday Mails, Catholic Immigration, and Sectional Division 41

Chapter 3 The "Gospel of Wealth" and the "Social Gospel": Industrialization and the Rise of Corporate America 74

Chapter 4 Faith and Science: The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy 104

Chapter 5 Religious and Political Liberalism: The Rise of Big Government from the New Deal to the Cold War 130

Chapter 6 Civil Rights as a Religious Movement: Politics in the Streets 160

Chapter 7 The Rise of the "Religious Right": The Reagan Revolution and the "Moral Majority" 184

Chapter 8 Reemergence of the "Religious Left"? America's Culture War in the Early Twenty-first Century 218

Notes 251

Index 271