Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the UN Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is the director of AEI's social and political studies. He is the author of twenty-five books and numerous scholarly articles.

• Introduction to the Transaction EditionPreface to the Revised Edition (1978)Introduction: An Invitation to Religious StudiesONE—The Voyage1. The Religious Drive2. What Religion is Not3. Way of Life4. Earthy Ecstasy5. Conversion to the SacredTWO—Autobiography and Story1. Religion as Autobiography2. Cultural Stories and Personal Stories3. Standpoint to Standpoint4. "Story," Elaborated5. What Cannot Be Said6. The Aesthetic, The Moral, The Religious7. Among the Many Rises and Declines of ReasonTHREE—Cultures1. Paradoxes of the Finite2. Sense of Reality3. From Culture to CultFOUR—Societies and Institutions1. Institutions are Man's Natural Habitat2. Freedom and Coercion3. Are Institutions Obsolete?4. The New Heteronomy5. Secular Religion6. The Communal Imagination7. The Realities of Economics8. Political Revolution9. Civil ReligionFIVE—Organizations1. Organized Anything2. Liturgy3. Church, Denomination, Sect4. Holy Texts5. Theologies6. A Map of Christian Theologies in the United States7. Theology as SuitorSIX—Nature and HistorySEVEN—How Then Shall We Act?1. Elaborations on "Story"2. A Story of My OwnEpilogue: New HorizonsNotesIndex of Names

Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the UN Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is the director of AEI's social and political studies. He is the author of twenty-five books and numerous scholarly articles.

• Introduction to the Transaction EditionPreface to the Revised Edition (1978)Introduction: An Invitation to Religious StudiesONE—The Voyage1. The Religious Drive2. What Religion is Not3. Way of Life4. Earthy Ecstasy5. Conversion to the SacredTWO—Autobiography and Story1. Religion as Autobiography2. Cultural Stories and Personal Stories3. Standpoint to Standpoint4. "Story," Elaborated5. What Cannot Be Said6. The Aesthetic, The Moral, The Religious7. Among the Many Rises and Declines of ReasonTHREE—Cultures1. Paradoxes of the Finite2. Sense of Reality3. From Culture to CultFOUR—Societies and Institutions1. Institutions are Man's Natural Habitat2. Freedom and Coercion3. Are Institutions Obsolete?4. The New Heteronomy5. Secular Religion6. The Communal Imagination7. The Realities of Economics8. Political Revolution9. Civil ReligionFIVE—Organizations1. Organized Anything2. Liturgy3. Church, Denomination, Sect4. Holy Texts5. Theologies6. A Map of Christian Theologies in the United States7. Theology as SuitorSIX—Nature and HistorySEVEN—How Then Shall We Act?1. Elaborations on "Story"2. A Story of My OwnEpilogue: New HorizonsNotesIndex of Names

Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the UN Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is the director of AEI's social and political studies. He is the author of twenty-five books and numerous scholarly articles.

• Introduction to the Transaction EditionPreface to the Revised Edition (1978)Introduction: An Invitation to Religious StudiesONE—The Voyage1. The Religious Drive2. What Religion is Not3. Way of Life4. Earthy Ecstasy5. Conversion to the SacredTWO—Autobiography and Story1. Religion as Autobiography2. Cultural Stories and Personal Stories3. Standpoint to Standpoint4. "Story," Elaborated5. What Cannot Be Said6. The Aesthetic, The Moral, The Religious7. Among the Many Rises and Declines of ReasonTHREE—Cultures1. Paradoxes of the Finite2. Sense of Reality3. From Culture to CultFOUR—Societies and Institutions1. Institutions are Man's Natural Habitat2. Freedom and Coercion3. Are Institutions Obsolete?4. The New Heteronomy5. Secular Religion6. The Communal Imagination7. The Realities of Economics8. Political Revolution9. Civil ReligionFIVE—Organizations1. Organized Anything2. Liturgy3. Church, Denomination, Sect4. Holy Texts5. Theologies6. A Map of Christian Theologies in the United States7. Theology as SuitorSIX—Nature and HistorySEVEN—How Then Shall We Act?1. Elaborations on "Story"2. A Story of My OwnEpilogue: New HorizonsNotesIndex of Names