1. Christianity, Reason, and the National Character

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue vii
4. Introduction: Going beyond Modernism from World War I to the Cold War 1
5. PART ONE. How a Theologian Served the Opinion Elite, and How an Evangelist Startled Them
6. 1. Christianity, Reason, and the National Character 29
7. 2. Origins of an Ailing Polemic 64
8. PART TWO. Narratives of Blindness and Insight in an Era of Confession
9. 3. Guilt of the Thirties, Penitence of the Fifties 87
10. 4. McCarthyism through Sentimental Melodrama and Film Noir 112
11. PART THREE. Cold War Cultural Politics and the Varieties of Religious Experience
12. 5. The Mass Culture Critique’s Implications for American Religion 145
13. 6. Jeremiads on the American Arcade and Its Consumption Ethic 167
14. PART FOUR. Versions of Inwardness in Cold War Psychology and the Neo- Gothic
15. 7. Controversies over Therapeutic Religion 185
16. 8. Locating the Enigma of Shirley Jackson 220
17. PART FIVE. The Styles of Prophecy
18. 9. Voices of Reform, Radicalism, and Conservative Dissent 245
19. 10. James Baldwin and the Wages of Innocence 265
20. Epilogue: Putting an End to Ending Our Innocence 299
21. Notes 313
22. Acknowledgments 409
23. Index 411