American Evangelicalism

JAMES DAVISON HUNTER is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of Culture Wars and The Death of Character.

• List of TablesPrefacePart One. Theoretical Considerations1. Definitions and Perspectives2. Religion and Modernity: A Sociology-of-Knowledge ApproachPart Two. Social and Historical Background3. History of a World View, 1890 to the Present4. A Demographic Profile5. Beliefs and PracticesPart Three. The Dynamics of Cognitive Bargaining6. Accommodation: The Domestication of Belief7. Resistances: Public Piety and Politization8. Legitimation: The Problem of ProjectionPart Four. Conclusions9. The Ambivalence of Orthodoxy in Contemporary AmericaAppendixes1. Operationalizing Evangelicalism2. Methodological StrategiesNotesBibliographyIndex