4. The Missionary Boomerang

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. 1. Introduction: The Other Protestants 1
5. 2. A Country Protestant on Steroids 10
6. 3. Jewish Immigrants versus Anglo-Protestant Hegemony 27
7. 4. The Missionary Boomerang 45
8. 5. The Apotheosis of Liberal Protestantism 68
9. 6. The 1960s and the Decline of the Mainline 90
10. 7. Ecumenical Democrats, Evangelical Republicans, and Post-Protestants 108
11. 8. Christianity’s American Fate: A Conservative Refuge? 132
12. 9. Beyond the Paradox of a Religious Politics in a Secular Society 157
13. Notes 165
14. Index 185
15. A Note on the Type 200