Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. INTRODUCTION: Dynamics of Democratic Faith 1
6. PART ONE. Democratic Faith and Its Discontents
7. CHAPTER 1. Faith in Man 15
8. CHAPTER 2. Democratic Transformation 50
9. CHAPTER 3. Democracy as Trial: Toward a Critique of Democratic Faith 84
10. PART TWO. Voices of the Democratic Faithful
11. CHAPTER 4. Protagoras Unbound: The Democratic Mythology of Protagoras’s “Great Speech” 119
12. CHAPTER 5. Civil Religion and the Democratic Faith of Rousseau 140
13. CHAPTER 6. American Faith: The Translation of Religious Faith to Democratic Faith 166
14. PART THREE. Friendly Critics of Democratic Faith
15. CHAPTER 7. “A Pattern Laid Up in Heaven”: Plato’s Democratic Ideal 191
16. CHAPTER 8. The Only Permanent State: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy 214
17. CHAPTER 9. Hope in America: The Chastened Faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch 239
18. CONCLUSION: A Model of Democratic Charity 270
19. NOTES 289
20. INDEX 361
21. NEW FORUM BOOKS 367