Table of Contents

List of Tables
Preface
Part One. Theoretical Considerations
1. Definitions and Perspectives
2. Religion and Modernity: A Sociology-of-Knowledge Approach
Part Two. Social and Historical Background
3. History of a World View, 1890 to the Present
4. A Demographic Profile
5. Beliefs and Practices
Part Three. The Dynamics of Cognitive Bargaining
6. Accommodation: The Domestication of Belief
7. Resistances: Public Piety and Politization
8. Legitimation: The Problem of Projection
Part Four. Conclusions
9. The Ambivalence of Orthodoxy in Contemporary America
Appendixes
1. Operationalizing Evangelicalism
2. Methodological Strategies
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

JAMES DAVISON HUNTER is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of Culture Wars and The Death of Character.