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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Secular Society? | |
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| The Puzzle of Religious Vitality | |
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| The Persistence of Religion | |
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| Stability or Change? | |
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| Possible Explanations | |
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| Why the United States? | |
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| Religion in the American Content | |
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| Understanding Religion | |
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| Patterns of Religious Affiliation | |
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| Basic Political Tendencies | |
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| Religion and American Political Culture | |
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| The Puritan Imprint on Colonial Thought | |
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| Covenant Theology and the Right to Revolt | |
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| Puritanism and Democracy: A Qualification | |
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| "Total Depravity" and Institutional Restraint | |
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| One Nation under God: A Civil Religion | |
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| Civil Religion as a Double-Edged Sword | |
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| One of Many Influences | |
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| Religion and the State | |
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| The Genesis of Church-State Conflict | |
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| Overview of Church-State Relations | |
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| How Far Can Government Go? | |
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| The Judicial Record | |
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| The Separationist Era (1940s-1970s) | |
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| The Accommodationist Era | |
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| The Politics of Church-State Relations | |
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| The Constitutional Revolution in Perspective | |
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| Mobilizing Religious Interests | |
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| Studying Religious Interests | |
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| Establishing Motive | |
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| Establishing Means | |
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| Religion and Political Action | |
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| Religion Cultural Environment | |
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| Institutional Context | |
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| Partisan Political Alignments | |
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| Influential Allies | |
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| Policy Domain | |
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| Religion and Public Opinion | |
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| Economic Liberalism | |
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| Moral-Cultural Issues | |
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| Social Justice | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| What Culture War? | |
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| The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants | |
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| The Political Background | |
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| Roots of the "New Christian Right" | |
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| Building a National Movement | |
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| Evangelical Political Action | |
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| Organizational Transformation: The Second Generation | |
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| Theories of Evangelical Mobilization | |
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| The Impact of the Christian Right | |
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| The Consequences for Public Policy | |
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| Good Times? The Christian Right and the Bush Adminstration | |
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| The Christian Right as a Mass Movement | |
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| Continuity and Change in the Religious Center: Catholics, Mainline Protestants, and Jews | |
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| Catholicism: Conflicting Political Impulses | |
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| The Conservative Political Heritage | |
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| The Transformation of Catholic Attitudes | |
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| Abortion: The Catholic Response | |
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| Is Abortion a Catholic Issue? | |
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| The Political Traditions of Mainline Protestants | |
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| Mainline Activism: Sources and Reaction s | |
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| American Jews | |
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| Religion and the Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities | |
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| African American Protestants | |
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| Latino Catholics and Protestants | |
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| Muslim Americans | |
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| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | |
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| Other Faith Traditions | |
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| The Other Minorities: Women and Gay People | |
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| Women, Religion, and Politics | |
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| Homosexuals | |
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| Religion and Homosexuality | |
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| Religion and American Political Life | |
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| The Case against Religious Influence in Politics | |
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| Assessing the Evidence | |
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| The Case for Religion in Politics | |
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| Religion in Public Conversation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reference | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |