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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Colonial Settlement to the 1730s | |
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| Affirming Divine Providence: Explorers, Missionaries, and Colonizers Come to America | |
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| The Bull Sublimis Deus (1537) | |
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| Of Plymouth Plantation (1620-47) | |
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| Spirituall Milk for Boston Babes in Either England (1656) | |
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| Piety and Practice in the Colonial Era | |
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| A Model of Christian Charity (1630) | |
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| Sleeping at Sermons Is a Great and a Dangerous Evil (1682) | |
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| Anxious Souls: Seeking Assurance in Puritan New England | |
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| To My Dear Children (1867) and To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678) | |
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| Diary (1677-1727) | |
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| Conflict and Violence, Gender and Ethnicity: Antinomianism and Indians | |
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| The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637) | |
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| A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) | |
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| Letter to the Indians (1681) | |
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| Challenges to the Established Order: Baptists, Quakers, and Witch-Hunting | |
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| Letter to the Town of Providence on the Limits of Religious Liberty (1654-55) | |
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| A Persuasive to Moderation to Church Dissenters, in Prudence and Conscience (1686) | |
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| From Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) | |
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| Revival, Revolution, and the Enlightenment, 1740-1800 | |
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| Debating Decorum and Religious Experience: Revivalism and the Great Awakening | |
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| From Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New-England (1743) | |
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| From Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England (1743) | |
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| Beyond New England: Southern Anglicanism, Methodist Perfection | |
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| I Cor. 14 v. 40 Let All Things Be Done Decently and in Order (1770) | |
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| A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1777) | |
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| Piety, Christian Love, and Resistance to Slavery | |
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| On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773), On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1770), and Thoughts on the Works of Providence (1773) | |
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| From The Journal of John Woolman and On Silent Worship | |
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| Bringing Outsiders In: More Encounters with Indians, Early American Jews | |
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| From Journal (1745) | |
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| The Petition of the Philadelphia Synagogue to Council of Censors of Pennsylvania (1783) | |
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| Enlightenment Views of Religious Tolerance and Liberty | |
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| A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) | |
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| Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785) | |
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| From An Alphabetical Compendium of the Various Sects Which Have Appeared in the World from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Present Day (1784) | |
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| From New Republic to Divided Nation, 1800-65 | |
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| New Theologies Absorb Old Orthodoxies: Mormonism, Transcendentalism, Communitarianism | |
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| The Articles of Faith (1842) and Revelation (1835) | |
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| Harvard Divinity School Address (1838) | |
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| Diverse Modes of Religious Conversion | |
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| Letters (1805) | |
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| From Memoirs (1876) | |
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| Instructions to the Priest-Monk Theophan (1853) | |
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| Slave Religion and African American Resistance | |
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| From The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836) | |
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| From Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (1845) | |
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| Evangelicalism, Abolitionism, and Pro-Slavery Christianity | |
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| Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) | |
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| Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1837) | |
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| From The Christian Doctrine of Slavery (1857) | |
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| Europeans Attempt to Define Religion in America | |
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| From Democracy in America (1835) | |
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| From America (1855) | |
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| Science, Immigration, and Consumer Capitalism, 1865-1920 | |
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| Darwinism, the Social Gospel, and the Gospel of Wealth | |
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| Evolution (1884) | |
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| From Acres of Diamonds (1890) | |
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| From A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917) | |
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| Reshaping Aged Creed: Reform Judaism, New Thought, Black Protest | |
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| Pittsburgh Platform (1885) | |
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| From In Tune with the Infinite (1897) | |
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| The Sorrow Songs (1903), Credo (1904), and A Litany of Atlanta (1906) | |
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| Narratives of Americanization and Resistance | |
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| From Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932) | |
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| The Promised Land (1912) | |
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| Conflicts of Immigration and Immigrants | |
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| From Our Country (1886) | |
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| Meeting with Archbishop John Ireland (1889) | |
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| The Heathen Invasion of America (1912) | |
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| Turning Outward: The Early Comparative Study of Religion | |
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| The Ten Religions and Christianity (1891) | |
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| Hinduism as a Religion and Farewell (1893) | |
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| From The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) | |
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| From Fundamentalism to Civil Rights, 1920-65 | |
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| Fundamentalism, Liberalism, and Neo-orthodoxy | |
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| Shall the Fundamentalists Win? (1922) | |
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| From The Irony of American History (1952) | |
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| Jewish Observance and Catholic Sacramentalism | |
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| From God in Search of Man (1955) | |
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| From New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) | |
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| Alienation, Dissidence, and Rebellion Against Traditional Authorities | |
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| From The Long Loneliness (1952) | |
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| From Dharma Bums (1958) | |
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| Black Encounters with World Religions and the Struggle Against Racism | |
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| What We May Learn from India (1936) and Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman Meet with Mahatma Gandhi (1936) | |
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| Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963) | |
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| Letters from Abroad (1964) | |
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| The "American Way of Life" and Its Critics | |
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| From Protestant-Catholic-Jew (1955) | |
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| Multiplicity, Pluralism, and Conflict after 1965 | |
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| The 1960s and Beyond: Theological Responses to Social and Political Crises | |
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| From Beyond God the Father (1973) | |
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| Christian Theological Mediocrity (1984) | |
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| Gay Friendship: A Thought Experiment in Catholic Moral Theology (1998) | |
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| Ritual Practice, and Spiritual Poetry in a Pluralistic Society | |
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| The Ways We Worship (1998) | |
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| From Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (1987) | |
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| Eagle Poem (1990) | |
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| Spring song (1987), the light that came to lucille clifton (1980), and testament (1980) | |
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| Religious Outings: Multiple Spiritual Personalities in a Post-Sixties America | |
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| From Stranger at the Gate (1994) | |
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| Religion and Conflict after 9/11 | |
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| From The Name (2002) | |
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| Letter to Franklin Graham from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (2002) | |
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| Danger and Grace-Sept. 11 and America's Religious Moment (2002) | |
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| Privatization, Secularization, and Religious Flourishing: The Enduring Challenges of Religious Expression in America | |
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| From Habits of the Heart (1985) | |
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| Religious Expression in Public Schools (1995) | |
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| From Democracy and Tradition (2004) | |
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