Part I: Priest, Prophet, King
- Symbolic Realism
- What Are Symbols?
- Who Are We?
- Unseen Power
- Egalitarian and King
- Five Elements of Symbolic Power
- Making the Most of Improbable Talents
- A Professional's Memo
- The Liturgy of Leadership
Part II: Moralism and Morality
Being Moral and Being Practical
The Constituency of Conscience
That Word "Moral"
Vietnam: More Moral Than Thou?
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Moralism
Beyond Niebuhr: Symbolic Realism
Part III: The Civil Religions of America
The Nation with the Soul of a Church
The Innocence Lingers On
The Civil Religions
Five Protestant Civil Religions
High-Church America
The Second Great Tradition
Part IV: Symbols of 1972
- Traditional Symbols
- New Hampshire Snows
- The Wallace Sun
- McCarthy in Illinois
- Sorting Out in Wisconsin
- Together with McGovern at the Garden
- The Shooting of Governor Wallace
- Eight Major Presidential Symbols
Part V: A New and Dark Faith
- America as a Business
- Three Corruptions
- Reforming the Presidency
- The Necessity of Dirty Hands
- The Dark Night of Faith
- The New Dark Civil Religion
Part VI: Afterword
- Carter's Hidden Religious Majority
- Rival Visions of "Community," 1988
- Moiling, Muddling, and Malaise
- Miracle in the Desert
