Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue 1
4. Reconstruction, Spiritualism, and the Shape of an Argument 13
5. Creating Western Civilization at Columbia University 32
6. Challenging Western Civilization at Howard University 55
7. Catholic Community in the Great Depression 82
8. The Anxiety of Christian Anticommunism 108
9. Global Christianity and Black Freedom 133
10. Cult and Countercult 159
11. Civil Religion, the Religious Right, and the Fracturing of Christian Republicanism 186
12. Epilogue 216
13. Notes 229
14. Acknowledgments 293
15. Index 295