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Index
Cover
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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
A Note on Language
Prologue
Introduction
Part I: Young Christendom and the Fading Pagan Gods
Chapter 1: Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
Chapter 2: The Way, the Truth, the Life, the Empire
Chapter 3: Coercion, Conversion, and Heresy
Part II: From Convivencia to the Stake
Chapter 4: Bishop Paul of Burgos (C. 1352–1435)
Chapter 5: Impureza de Sangre: The Crumbling of the Convivencia
Chapter 6: The Inquisition and the End
Part III: Reformations
Chapter 7: John Donne (1572–1631)
Chapter 8: “Not with Sword...but with Printing”
Chapter 9: Persecution in an Age of Religious Conversion
Part IV: Conversions in the Dawn of the Enlightenment
Chapter 10: Margaret Fell (1614–1702): Woman’s Mind, Woman’s Voice
Chapter 11: Religious Choice and Early Enlightenment Thought
Chapter 12: Miracles Versus Evidence: Conversion and Science
Chapter 13: Prelude: O My America!
Part V: The Jewish Conversion Question: Where Christianity Stumped Its Toe
Chapter 14: Heinrich Heine (1797–1856): Convictionless Conversion
Chapter 15: The Varieties of Coercive Experience
Chapter 16: Edith Stein (1891–1942): The Sainthood of a Converted Jew
Part VI: American Exceptionalism: Toward Religious Choice as a Natural Right
Chapter 17: Peter Cartwright (1785–1872): Anti‑Intellectualism and the Battle for Reason
Chapter 18: Remaking the Protestant American Compact
Interregnum: Absolutism and Its Discontents
Chapter 19: True Believers
Part VII: The Way We Live Now
Chapter 20: “The Greatest”: Muhammad Ali and the Demythologizing Decade
Chapter 21: American Dreaming
Conclusion: Darkness Visible
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
A Note About the Author
Illustrations
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