Religion and American politics: from the colonial period to the 1980s

Introduction / Mark A. Noll

Religion and politics in America from the first settlements to the Civil War / John M. Murrin

Religion and ideological change in the American Revolution / Ruth H. Bloch

Rhetoric and reality in the early republic : the case of the Federalist clergy / Harry S. Stout

Religion, government, and power in the new American nation / John F. Wilson

The democratization of Christianity and the character of American politics / Nathan O. Hatch

Religion and politics in the antebellum North / Daniel Walker Howe

Ethnoreligious political behavior in the mid-nineteenth century : voting, values, cultures / Robert P. Swierenga

Religion and the "civilizing process" in the early American South, 1600-1860 / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

Beyond commonality and plurality : persistent racial polarity in American religion and politics / David W. Wills

Religion and politics in nineteenth-century Britain : the case against American exceptionalism / Richard Carwardine

Politics, religion, and the Canadian experience : a preliminary probe / George A. Rawlyk

Protestant theological tensions and political styles in the progressive period / Robert T. Handy

Roman Catholics and American politics, 1900-1960 : altered circumstances, continuing patterns / James Hennesey

The twentieth century : Protestants and others / Martin E. Marty

Quid obscurum : the changing terrain of church-state relations / Robert Wuthnow

Religion, voting for president, and party identification, 1948-1984 / Lyman A. Kellstedt and Mark A. Noll.

Afterword : religion, politics, and the search for an American consensus / George M. Marsden.