Part I: Priest, Prophet, King

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