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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
1. "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology	p. 1
2. Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism	p. 15
3. Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions	p. 41
4. Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity	p. 56
5. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered	p. 78
6. Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene	p. 105
7. Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique	p. 124
8. Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion	p. 136
9. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community	p. 150
10. Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society	p. 163
11. Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive	p. 181
12. Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America	p. 195
13. On Being a Christian and an American	p. 224
14. Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities	p. 236
Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World	p. 255
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 311
Contributors	p. 337
Index	p. 341
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
1. "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology	p. 1
2. Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism	p. 15
3. Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions	p. 41
4. Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity	p. 56
5. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered	p. 78
6. Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene	p. 105
7. Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique	p. 124
8. Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion	p. 136
9. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community	p. 150
10. Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society	p. 163
11. Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive	p. 181
12. Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America	p. 195
13. On Being a Christian and an American	p. 224
14. Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities	p. 236
Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World	p. 255
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 311
Contributors	p. 337
Index	p. 341