Religion and politics in the United States

A secular society

The puzzle of religious vitality

The persistence of religion

Stability or change?

Possible explanations

Why the United States?

Religion in the American context

Understanding religion

Patterns of religious affiliation

Basic political tendencies

Religion and american political culture

The Puritan imprint on colonial thought

Covenant theology and the right to revolt

Puritanism and democracy : a qualification

"Total depravity" and institutional restraint

One nation under God : a civil religion

Civil religion as a double-edged sword

One of many influences

Religion and the state

The genesis of church-state conflict

Overview of church-state relations

How far can government go?

The judicial record

The separationist period

The accomodationist era

The politics of church-state relations

The constitutional revolution in perspective

Mobilizing religious interests

Studying religious interests

Establishing motive

Establishing means

Religion and political action

Religious cultural environment

Institutional contexts

Partisan political alignments

Influential allies

Policy domain

Religion and public opinion

Economic liberalism

Moral-cultural issues

Social justice

Foreign policy

What culture war?

The political mobilization of evangelical Protestants

The political background

Roots of the "new christian right"

Building a national movement

Evangelical political action

Organizational transformation : the second generation

Theories of evangelical mobilization

The impact of the Christian right

The consequences for public policy

Good times? : the Christian Right and the Bush administration

The Christian Right as a mass movement

Continuity and change in the religious center : Catholics, mainline Protestants and Jews

Catholicism : conflicting political impulses

The conservative political heritage

The transformation of Catholic attitudes

Abortion : the Catholic response

Is abortion a Catholic issue?

The political traditions of mainline Protestants

Mainline activism : sources and reactions

American Jews

Religion and the politics of ethnic and religious minorities

African-American Protestants

Latino Catholics and Protestants

Muslim Americans

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Other faith traditions

The other minorities : women and gay people

Women, religion and politics

Homosexuals

Religion and homosexuality

Religion and American political life

The case against religious influence in politics

Assessing the evidence

The case for religion in politics

Religion in public conversation