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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: A New Perspective on Religion and Politics | |
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| Understanding Worldviews | |
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| Worldviews: The Center and the Outer Edges | |
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| Two Major Worldviews in Contemporary America | |
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| The Formal Structure of a Worldview | |
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| Worldviews and Faith | |
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| The Rationality of Worldviews | |
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| Worldviews and Religion | |
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| Foundational and Nonfoundational Beliefs | |
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| Lower-Order and Higher-Order Beliefs | |
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| Promoting Our Worldview: Belief, Action and Ritual | |
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| The Worldview of Secularism | |
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| Secularism Today | |
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| Secularism, Politics and Seculocracy | |
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| The Influence of Secularism on Religion | |
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| Secularism as a Worldview | |
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| Secularism as a Religion | |
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| Religious Beliefs and Reason | |
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| What Does It Mean to Describe a Belief as "Religious"? | |
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| Reason as a Source of Religious Beliefs | |
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| The Rationality of Religious Belief | |
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| Introducing Reasonable Religious Beliefs into Politics | |
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| How Should We Handle Reasonable Disagreements? | |
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| Keeping Religion Out of Politics I | |
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| Religious Beliefs Should Be Excluded Because They Are "Religious" | |
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| Traditional Religious Beliefs Cannot Be Based on Reason and Evidence | |
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| "Secular Reason" Does Not Imply Secularism | |
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| Secularism Can Better Achieve Overall Agreement Among Worldviews | |
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| Keeping Religion Out of Politics II | |
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| Most Religious Beliefs Are Higher-Order Beliefs, and So Should Be Kept Private | |
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| Religion Is Dangerous; Secularism Is Benign | |
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| Religious Beliefs Should Not Be Forced by Law on Those Who Do Not Think They Are True | |
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| Religious Views Should Be Excluded According to the U.S. Constitution | |
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| Rawls, Religion and Democracy | |
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| Arguing from Within Our Worldview | |
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| John Rawls's Political Liberalism | |
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| Problems with Rawls's Theory | |
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| Religion and Democracy | |
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| The Principle of Religious Freedom | |
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| Religion in Politics | |
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| Introducing Lower-Order, Rational Beliefs into Public Arguments | |
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| A Seculocracy for a Secularist People? | |
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| Some Practical Applications | |
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| The Relationship Between Church and State | |
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| A Fictional Example: Form and Content | |
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| Looking at the World Upside Down: On Revising Our Terminology | |
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| Pluralism, Relativism and Religious Debates: American Style | |
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| American Pluralism | |
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| School Prayer | |
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| Display of Traditional Religious Symbols in Public Places | |
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| Religion and Moral Issues: The Euthanasia Debate in Oregon | |
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| Moral Relativism in American Culture | |
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| The Problems with Relativism | |
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| The Rhetoric of Relativism | |
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| Tolerance: Traditional and Contemporary Meanings | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |