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2. Ibid.
3. Arthur Kirsch, Auden and Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 22.
4. Auden, Modern Canterbury Pilgrims, 40.
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24. Ibid., 111–12.
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26. Ahlstrom, A Religious History, 934.
27. Barth, The Epistle to the Romans, trans. Edwyn C. Hoskyns (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), 51.
28. Karl Adam, quoted in Ahlstrom, A Religious History, 934.
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30. H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), 193.
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32. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), 207.
33. Ahlstrom, A Religious History, 933.
34. Jason Stevens, God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), 2.
35. Ibid., 8.
36. Ibid., 90–91.
37. Marty, Under God, Indivisible, 144–47.
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40. David Aikman, Billy Graham: His Life and Influence (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007), 131.
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43. Ibid., 149.
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45. Aikman, Billy Graham, 126.
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47. Ibid., 67–68.
48. George Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdsman, 1987), 158.
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53. Morris, American Catholic, 281.
54. Kenneth Woodward, “Memories of a Catholic Boyhood,” First Things, April 2011.
55. Garry Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs (New York: Doubleday, 1971), 17.
56. John T. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), 151.
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58. Morris, American Catholic, 225–26.
59. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom, 166.
60. Ibid., 167.
61. Fulton Sheen, Whence Come Wars (Sheed and Ward, 1940), 60.
62. Wilfrid Parsons, S.J., “Philosophical Factors in the Integration of American Culture,” 1942. Quoted in McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom, 193.
63. Jacques Maritain, Reflections on America (New York: Scribner’s, 1958), 83.
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65. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1899).
66. E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Church in America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1973), 54.
67. Ibid., 51.
68. Patrick Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945, 48–50.
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70. Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945, 51.
71. Marty, Under God, Indivisible, 392.
72. Chappell, Stone of Hope, 99.
73. Marty, Under God, Indivisible, 385.
74. Ibid., 386.
75. Chappell, Stone of Hope, 97.
76. Ibid.
77. Ben Schwarz, “What to Read This Month,” The Atlantic, November 2003.
78. Steven Patrick Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 95.
79. Chappell, Stone of Hope, 107.
80. Morris J. MacGregor, Steadfast in the Faith: The Life of Patrick Cardinal Boyle (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006), 195–96.
81. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom, 211.
82. Martin Gardner, The Flight of Peter Fromm (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994), 189.
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1. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience, 391.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963.
3. Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs, 146–48.
4. Dean M. Kelley, Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 1.
5. Thomas Jefferson, “A Letter to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse,” June 26, 1822.
6. Dean R. Hoge, Benton Johnson, and Donald A. Luidens, Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994), 2.
7. Kelley, Conservative Churches, 2–8.
8. Hoge et al., Vanishing Boundaries, 5.
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14. Ibid., 255–61.
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16. Ibid., 21–25.
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28. Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 (New York: Crown Forum, 2010), 153.
29. Hoge et al., Vanishing Boundaries, 199.
30. Ibid., 184.
31. Finke and Stark, Churching of America, 263.
32. Fischer and Hout, Century of Difference, 200.
33. Matthew J. Price, “Male Clergy in Economic Crisis,” The Christian Century, August 15–22, 2001.
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3. Harvey Cox, The Secular City (Toronto: Macmillan, 1965), 221.
4. Ibid., 186–87.
5. Ibid., 27–32.
6. Ibid., 35.
7. Ibid., 55.
8. Ibid., 72–73.
9. Ibid., 201–6.
10. David M. Roberston, A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike (New York: Random House, 2004), 104.
11. “Teachings and Practice on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage,” American Lutheran Church, 1982.
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15. Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945, 124.
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21. George A. Kelly, The Battle for the American Church (New York: Doubleday, 1980), 291.
22. Ibid., 296.
23. Theodore Hesburgh et al., “The Idea of the Catholic University,” July 23, 1967.
24. “Gay Priests Commit No More Abuse …,” Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS, April 5, 2002. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week531/feature.html.
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26. Ibid.
27. Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs, 158.
28. Philip F. Lawler, The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture (New York: Encounter Books, 2008), 74.
29. Thomas Sheehan, “The Revolution in the Church,” The New York Review of Books, June 14, 1984.
30. Kelly, The Battle for the American Church, 245.
31. Leon Podles, Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Baltimore: Crossland Press, 2008), 454-56.
32. James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism (New York: Herder and Herder, 1971), 58-59.
33. Kelly, Battle for the American Church, 238.
34. Sheehan, “Revolution in the Church.”
35. Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs, 161.
36. Ibid., 186.
37. Finke and Stark, Churching of America, 269-271.
38. Hitchcock, Recovery, 23.
39. Harvey Cox, Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969).
40. Sheehan, “Revolution in the Church.”
41. Kelley, Conservative Churches, 84-85.
42. Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs, 212-213.
43. Hitchcock, Decline and Fall, 31-32.
44. Robertson, Passionate Pilgrim, 214.
45. Ibid., 218.
1. “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium,” First Things, May 1994.
2. Jacques Maritain, The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself About the Present Time (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968), 152.
3. Neuhaus, The Catholic Moment, 135.
4. Michael Novak, “The Peasant of the Garonne, by Jacques Maritain,” Commentary, September 1968.
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8. Ibid.
9. Holy Mass for the American Priests, Homily of His Holiness John Paul II, October 4, 1979, http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19791004_usa-philadelphia_en.html.
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13. Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: A Biography (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997), 200.
14. Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdsman Publishing, 1994), 109.
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18. Ibid., 138.
19. Peter Steinfels, “Further Adrift,” Commonweal, October 22, 2010.
20. For instance, “Catholics Similar to Mainstream on Abortion, Stem Cells,” Gallup, March 20, 2009. http://www.gallup.com/poll/117154/catholics-similar-mainstream-abortion-stem-cells.aspx.
21. For instance, “American Catholics Revere Pope, Disagree With Some Major Teachings,” Gallup, April 4, 2005, http://www.gallup.com/poll/15478/american-catholics-revere-pope-disagree-some-major-teachings.aspx.
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24. For instance, Pat Wingert, “Priests Commit No More Abuse Than Other Men,” Newsweek, April 7, 2010.
25. Podles, Sacrilege, 441–87.
26. Christian Smith, American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 20.
27. Ibid., 22.
28. Daniel M. Hungerman, “Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal,” University of Notre Dame and NBER, November 2011.
29. Putnam and Campbell, American Grace, 108.
30. Ibid., 126.
31. Smith, American Evangelicalism, 181.
32. Ibid., 178.
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36. Putnam and Campbell, American Grace, 126.
37. Cathy Lynn Grossman, “More Americans Tailoring Religion to Fit Their Needs,” USA Today, September 13, 2011.
38. Hunter, To Change the World, 89.
39. Ibid., 92.
40. Ibid., 89.
41. Andrew Sullivan, “There’s a New Power in America—Atheism,” The Times of London, March 14, 2009.
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1. Joan Accocella, “Should We Hate Judas Iscariot?” The New Yorker, August 3, 2009.
2. Elaine Pagels, “The Gospel Truth,” The New York Times, April 8, 2006.
3. Thomas Bartlett, “The Betrayal of Judas,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30, 2008.
4. John Noble Wilford and Laurie Goodstein, “In Ancient Document, Judas, Minus the Betrayal,” The New York Times, April 7, 2006.
5. April DeConick, “Gospel Truth,” The New York Times, December 1, 2007.
6. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to John Adams,” October 13, 1813.
7. Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992), 98.
8. Henry Emerson Fosdick, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?,” Christian Work, June 10, 1922.
9. Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 4.
10. Richard B. Hays, “The Corrected Jesus,” First Things, May 1994.
11. Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (New York: Random House, 2003), 48.
12. Marcus Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 307.
13. John Dominic Crossan, Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 217.
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15. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Random House, 1989), xx.
16. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1983), 107.
17. Ibid., 52.
18. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 32.
19. Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 422.
20. Johnson, The Real Jesus, 12–13.
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22. Pagels, Beyond Belief, 31.
23. Crossan, God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 5.
24. Borg, Jesus, 305.
25. Funk, “Twenty-One Theses.”
26. Pagels, Beyond Belief, 48.
27. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them) (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 222.
28. Pagels, Beyond Belief, 328.
29. Johnson, The Real Jesus, 54.
30. Adam Gopnik, “What Did Jesus Do?” The New Yorker, May 24, 2010.
31. Timothy Beal, “The Bible Is Dead; Long Live the Bible,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 2011.
32. Andreas J. Kostenburger and Michael J. Kruger, The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination With Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 81.
33. C. E. Hill, Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 235.
34. Ehrman, Lost Christianities, 9.
35. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted, 219.
36. Ehrman, Lost Christianities, 5.
37. Gospel of Thomas, Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer, transl., the Gnostic Society Library, http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html.
38. Hill, Who Chose the Gospels?, 229.
39. Gopnik, “Jesus Laughed,” The New Yorker, April 17, 2006.
40. Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 190.
41. Ibid., 188.
42. Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, 9.
43. Ibid., 47.
44. Carl Olson, “Dan Brown Rushes in Where Angels (and Demons) Fear to Tread,” This Rock, April 2009.
45. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (New York: Random House, 2003), 327.
46. “Freemasons Await Dan Brown Novel,” Associated Press, September 15, 2009.
47. Gopnik, “Jesus Laughed.”
48. Hitchcock, “Does Christianity Have a Future?,” in Years of Crisis, 129.
49. Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, xx.
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1. Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential (New York: Time Warner, 2004), 5.
2. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2, Henry Reeve, trans. (New York: J. and H. G. Langsley, 1840), 261.
3. Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1915), 18.
4. Rhonda Byrne, The Secret (New York: Atria Books, 2006), 32.
5. Hank Hanegraaf, Christianity in Crisis (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1997), 332.
6. David Jones and Russell Woodbridge, Health, Wealth and Happiness: Has the Prosperity Gospel Overshadowed the Gospel of Christ? (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2011), 53.
7. D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Press, 1988), 57.
8. William Lobdell, “Pastor’s Empire Built on Acts of Faith, and Cash,” Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2004.
9. Burkhard Bilger, “God Doesn’t Need Ole Anthony,” The New Yorker, December 6, 2004.
10. Hanna Rosin, “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” The Atlantic, December 2009.
11. Carolyn Tuft and Bill Smith, “From Fenton to Fortune in the Name of God,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 15, 2003.
12. William Martin, “Prime Minister,” Texas Monthly, August 2005.
13. Osteen, Your Best Life, 165.
14. Ibid., 125.
15. Ibid., 168.
16. “Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion,” Pew Hispanic Center, 2008, 32.
17. Jonathan L. Walton, Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (New York: NYU Press, 2009), 47.
18. Ibid., xiii.
19. Ibid., xiv.
20. Ted Olsen, “What Really Unites Pentecostalists?” Christianity Today, December 5, 2006.
21. “Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostalists,” Pew Research Center, October 5, 2006, 30.
22. Bruce Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life (Sister, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2000), 17.
23. Ibid., 33.
24. Ibid., 31–32.
25. T. D. Jakes, The Great Investment: Balancing Faith, Family and Finance to Build a Rich Spiritual Life (New York: Berkley Publishing, 2000), 31.
26. Larry Eskridge, “Money Matters: The Phenomenon of Financial Counselor Larry Burkett and Christian Financial Concepts,” in More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History, Eskridge and Mark Noll, eds. (Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdsman, 2000), 318.
27. Eskridge, “Money Matters,” 312.
28. Ibid., 329–30.
29. Jakes, The Great Investment, 15.
30. Michael Hamilton, “More Money, More Ministry: The Financing of American Evangelicalism Since 1945,” in More Money, More Ministry, 104.
31. Hamilton, “More Money,” 104.
32. Ibid., 107.
33. David Van Biema and Jeff Chu, “Does God Want You to Be Rich?” Time magazine, September 10, 2006.
34. Leo XII, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891.
35. Pope Benedict XVI, “Europe and Its Discontents,” First Things, January 2006.
36. Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 79–82.
37. Ibid., 342.
38. Ibid., 349.
39. Bill McKibben, “The Christian Paradox: How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong,” Harper’s, August 2005.
40. McKibben, “Christian Paradox.”
41. “U.S. Charitable Giving Estimated to Be $307.65 Billion in 2008,” Giving USA Foundation, June 10, 2009; for international comparisons, see “Americans Give Record $295B to Charity,” Associated Press, November 25, 2007.
42. Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 34–39.
43. Arthur Brooks, “Religious Faith and Charitable Giving,” Policy Review, October 1, 2003.
44. Rob Reich and Christopher Rimer, “Has the Great Recession Made Americans Stingier?” Pathways, fall 2011: 5.
45. Hamilton, “More Money, More Ministry,” in More Money, More Ministry, 130.
46. Michael Phillips, “In Swaziland, U.S. Preacher Sees His Dream Vanish,” The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2007.
47. Ibid.
48. Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 22.
49. Osteen, Your Best Life Now, 3.
50. Rosin, “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?”
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Osteen, It’s Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams, and Increase in God’s Favor (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), xi.
56. Ibid., 73.
57. Ibid., 35.
58. Ibid., 131.
59. Ibid., 125.
1. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 10-16.
2. Ibid., 18–21.
3. Ibid., 26–28.
4. Ibid., 33.
5. Ibid., 158.
6. Ibid., 176.
7. Ibid., 199–200.
8. Ibid., 205.
9. Ibid., 208.
10. Ibid., 192.
11. Ibid., 122.
12. Ibid., 122.
13. Ibid., 120.
14. Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Navoto, CA: New World Library, 2004), 13.
15. Ibid., 13.
16. Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. I (New York: Putnam, 1996), 8.
17. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 152.
18. Pagels, Beyond Belief, 133.
19. Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008), 20.
20. Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, 328.
21. James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2006), 242.
22. “An Interview with Paulo Coelho,” in Coehlo, The Alchemist, 182.
23. Ahlstrom, A Religious History, 1019.
24. Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 4.
25. Nathan Schneider, “What Is Oprah?: An Interview with Kathryn Lofton,” The Immanent Frame, January 26, 2011, http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/01/26/what-is-oprah-an-interview-with-kathryn-lofton/.
26. Ibid.
27. Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, 14.
28. Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy, 241.
29. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Harvard Divinity School Address,” July 15, 1838.
30. Leszek Kolakowski, Religion: If There Is No God: On God, the Devil, Sin and Other Worries of the So-called Philosophy of Religion (London: Fontana Press, 1993), 116.
31. Kolakowski, Religion, 104.
32. Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 15.
33. Kolakowski, Religion, 104.
34. Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue: Living in the World With Honesty, Courage and Love (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1997), 99.
35. Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, 203.
36. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2, Henry Reeve, trans. (New York: J. and H. G. Langsley, 1840), 30.
37. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 40.
38. Sam Harris, The End of Faith (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 221.
39. Karen Armstrong, The Case for God (New York: Random House, 2009), xii.
40. Ibid., xviii.
41. Ibid., 113.
42. Ibid., 142.
43. Ibid., 118.
44. Ibid.
45. Kolakowski, Religion, 108–9.
46. “An Interview with Paul Coelho,” in Coelho, The Alchemist, 181.
47. Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, 144.
48. Luke Timothy Johnson, “Dry Bones: Why Religion Can’t Live Without Mysticism,” Commonweal, February 26, 2010.
49. Walsch, Living in the World, 97.
50. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009), 43.
51. Tolle, The Power of Now, 3.
52. Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: The Uses of Faith After Freud (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006), 19.
53. Ibid., 20.
54. Ibid., 21.
55. Ibid., 16.
56. Ibid., 19.
57. Ibid., 20.
58. Ibid., 19–20.
59. Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 40–41.
60. Ibid., 171.
61. Ibid., 134.
62. Ibid., 162-63.
63. Ibid., 165.
64. Ibid., 163–65.
65. Ibid., 163–64.
66. Damon Linker, “The Future of Christian America,” The New Republic Online, April 7, 2007.
67. Rieff, Triumph, 21.
68. Jean Twenge, Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before (New York: Free Press, 2006), 69–70.
69. “Empathy: College Students Don’t Have as Much as They Used To,” University of Michigan News Service, May 27, 2010.
70. Christian Smith and Patricia Snell, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 68.
71. “Empathy,” University of Michigan News Service.
72. David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 99.
73. Rieff, Triumph, 13.
74. Walsch, Conversations, 129.
75. James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2011).
76. Margaret Talbot, “Red Sex, Blue Sex,” The New Yorker, November 3, 2008.
77. Talbot, “Red Sex, Blue Sex”; also, Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005); Mark A. Smith, “Religion, Divorce, and the Missing Culture War in America,” Political Science Quarterly, spring 2010.
78. Rachel K. Jones et al., “Patterns in the Socioeconomic Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions in 2000–2001,” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, September/October 2002.
79. Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 188.
80. “Americans Have Fewer Friends Outside the Family, Duke Study Shows,” Duke Today, June 23, 2006.
81. Rieff, Triumph, 262.
82. Ronald Dworkin, “The Rise of the Caring Industry,” Policy Review, June 1, 2010.
83. Ibid.
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2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption, translated and quoted in David Goldman, “Christian, Muslim, Jew,” First Things, August 2007.
5. Goldman, “Christian, Muslim, Jew.”
6. David Goldman, writing as Spengler, “Overcoming Ethnicity,” Asia Times Online, January 6, 2009, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/KA06Aa01.html.
7. Ibid.
8. George Steiner, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 163–164.
9. David Gelernter, Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion (New York: Doubleday, 2007).
10. E. J. Dionne and William Galston, “The Old and New Politics of Faith: Religion in the 2010 Election,” Brookings Institution, November 17, 2010.
11. Mark A. Signorelli, “A City Upon a Hill,” Front Porch Republic, March 27, 2011. http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2011/03/a-city-upon-a-hill/.
12. Walter McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 37.
13. George Washington, “Farewell Address,” September 19, 1796.
14. Calvin Coolidge, “Speech on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” July 5, 1926.
15. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Farewell Address,” January 17. 1961.
16. Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865.
17. Gelernter, Americanism, 139.
18. Abraham Lincoln, “Address to the New Jersey State Senate,” February 21, 1861.
19. Richard M. Gamble, The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003), 66.
20. Jeff Sharlet, “Through a Glass, Darkly: How the Christian Right is Reimagining U.S. History,” Harper’s, December 2006.
21. Gamble, The War for Righteousness, 66.
22. Ibid., 56.
23. Ibid., 56.
24. Ibid., 148.
25. Ahlstrom, A Religious History, 885.
26. McDougall, Promised Land, 138.
27. Ibid., 190.
28. Ibid.
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32. Ryan Lizza, “The Transformation of Michele Bachmann,” The New Yorker, August 15, 2011.
33. Lyndon Johnson, “State of the Union Address,” January 4, 1965.
34. Bill Moyers, “Welcome to Doomsday,” Beliefnet, March 2005, http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2005/03/Welcome-To-Doomsday.aspx?p=1.
35. Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (New York: Viking, 2006), 253.
36. Rich Lowry, “A Theology of Freedom,” National Review Online, July 17, 2007.
37. George W. Bush, “Second Inaugural Address,” January 20, 2005.
38. Mark Morford, “Is Obama an Enlightened Being?,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2008.
39. Josephine Hearn, “Black Lawmakers Emotional about Obama’s Success,” Politico, June 4, 2008.
40. John Patrick Diggins, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 16.
41. “Republicans, Democrats Shift on Whether Government Is a Threat,” Gallup, October 18, 2010, http://www.gallup.com/poll/143717/republicans-democrats-shift-whether-gov-threat.aspx.
42. Gene Healy, “The Cult of the Presidency,” Reason, June 2008.
43. “The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate,” Pew Research Center, April 29, 2009. http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/The-Religious-Dimensions-of-the-Torture-Debate.aspx.
44. Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008), 118.
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