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| Preface to the First and Second Editions | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Introduction An Elephant in the Dark | |
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| Defining Religion | |
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| Religion and Boundaries | |
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| Two Kinds of Religion | |
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| Components of a Religious System | |
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| A Short Description of Religion | |
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| Finding American Religion | |
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| Many Religions and One Religion | |
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| More about Boundaries | |
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| A Short Tour of American Religious History in the Text | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Manyness: the Original Cast | |
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| Original Manyness: Tradition and Change among Native Americans | |
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| Native American Diversity | |
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| Common Characteristics in Religion | |
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| Differences in Native American Religious Traditions | |
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| The Oglala | |
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| The Hopi | |
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| Change in Native American Traditions | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Israel in a Promised Land: Jewish Religion and Peoplehood | |
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| The Jewish Immigrations | |
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| Jewishness and Peoplehood | |
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| Judaism as Biblical Religion | |
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| Jewish Tradition and the Consecration of Time | |
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| The Ceremonial Cycle | |
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| The Moral Law | |
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| The Moral Law in the United States | |
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| American Forms of Judaism | |
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| American Judaism and Contemporary Life | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Bread and Mortar: The Presence of Roman Catholicism | |
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| Spanish Missions | |
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| French Missions | |
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| English Colonies | |
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| Roman Catholic Religion | |
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| The Consecration of Space: Sacramentalism | |
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| The Consecration of Time: The Liturgical Cycle | |
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| Paraliturgical Devotions | |
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| Ethics and Morality | |
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| The American Saga of Catholicism | |
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| Ethnicity | |
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| Pluralism and Americanization in Historical Perspective | |
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| Pluralism and Americanization: The Later Twentieth Century and On | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Word from the Beginning: American Protestant Origins and the Liberal Tradition | |
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| The Religion of the Reformation | |
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| The Reformation in England | |
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| The Reformation in the English Colonies | |
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| Anglican Virginia | |
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| Puritan New England | |
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| Pluralist New York and Pennsylvania | |
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| Colonial Foreshadowing's of Liberalism | |
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| Liberalism in the American Revolution | |
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| Early Liberal Heyday: From the Revolution to the Civil War | |
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| From Gilded Age into Twentieth Century | |
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| Protestant Liberalism in Recent Times | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Restoring an Ancient Future: The Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind | |
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| Mission on the Home Front | |
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| Christianizing Relative, Friend, and Neighbor | |
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| Institutionalizing the Mission Mind | |
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| Christianizing Nearby Strangers | |
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| Mission to the World | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Black Center: African American Religion and Nationhood | |
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| West African Religions | |
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| New Land, New Religion | |
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| Black Christianity | |
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| The Invisible Institution | |
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| The Black Church in Freedom | |
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| Black Religion in the Twentieth Century and After | |
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| The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement | |
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| Combination and Creation in New Religious Movements | |
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| The Religion of Blackness | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Manyness: Newmade in America | |
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| Visions of Paradise Planted: Nineteenth-Century New Religions | |
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| Sectarianism and Nineteenth-Century New Religions | |
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| The Mormons | |
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| The Christian Scientists | |
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| The Seventh-day Adventists | |
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| The Jehovah's Witnesses | |
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| Communalism | |
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| The Shakers | |
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| The Oneida Perfectionists | |
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| Paradise Found and Paradise Lost: An Afterword | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Homesteads of the Mind: Belief and Practice in Metaphysics | |
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| The Religious Meaning of Metaphysics | |
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| Metaphysical Sources in the Western Tradition | |
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| Traditional Practice in the Colonies | |
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| Astrology | |
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| Witchcraft | |
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| The Metaphysical Revival of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Popular Metaphysics in a New Nation | |
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| Spiritualism | |
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| Theosophy | |
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| New Thought | |
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| Mystical and Psychic Frontiers | |
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| Later American Metaphysics | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Manyness: Patterns of Expansion and Contraction | |
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| East Is West: Eastern Peoples and Eastern Religions | |
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| Nearer East: Eastern Orthodoxy | |
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| Eastern Orthodox Religion | |
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| Orthodoxy in the United States | |
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| Middle East: Islam | |
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| The Religious Meaning of Islam | |
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| Transformations of Islam in the United States | |
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| Islam and New Religions: The Example of Baha'i | |
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| Farther East: Hinduism | |
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| Religious Themes in Hinduism | |
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| Hinduism in the United States | |
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| Farther East: Buddhism | |
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| The Religion of Buddhism | |
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| Buddhism in the United States | |
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| East Is West: Expansion, Contraction, and Combination | |
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| In Overview | |
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| Fundamentals | |