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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Religious Regulation | |
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| English Heritage | |
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| The Crown and the Church | |
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| The Age of Faith | |
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| The Act of Uniformity, Religious Liberty, and Dissent | |
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| Transplanting the Church of England in the Chesapeake | |
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| "Nursing Fathers" of the Church | |
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| A Gentleman's Religion | |
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| Religious Outsider | |
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| Puritan Fathers and the "Christian Common-wealth" | |
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| "the religious design of [the Puritan] Fathers" | |
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| "Shields unto the Churches of New-England" | |
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| "a well-bounded Toleration" | |
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| A "Holy Experiment" in Religious Pluralism | |
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| The "Holy Experiment" | |
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| "a great mixt multitude" | |
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| Religion, Politics, and the Failure of the "Holy Experiment" | |
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| Religious Competition | |
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| "Trafficking for the Lord" and the Expansion of Religious Choice | |
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| Regulated Parishes | |
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| "a Sett of Rambling Fellows" | |
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| "as tho 'they had their Religion to chuse" | |
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| Deists Enter the Religious Marketplace | |
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| The New Learning | |
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| Science and Religion | |
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| Founder and "True" Religion | |
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| Whigs and Dissenters Fight Religious Regulation | |
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| Whig and Dissenting Traditions | |
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| Warning against "Spiritual Directors" | |
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| Dissent against the Standing Order | |
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| Religious Freedom | |
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| The American Revolution of Religion | |
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| Religion and Independence | |
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| Opposing Massachusetts's "oppressive establishment of religion" | |
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| Triumph of Religious Freedom in Virginia | |
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| Constitutional Recognition of a Free Religious Market | |
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| Religious Factions and the Threat to Union | |
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| The "Godless Constitution" | |
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| Ratification Contingent upon Religious Freedom | |
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| Religion and Politics in the Presidential Campaign of 1800 | |
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| "...govern ...in the name of the Lo: Jesus Christ" | |
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| "Jefferson--And No God" | |
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| "one God, three Gods, no God, or twenty Gods" | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |