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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
Chapter 1: Now Entering Fantasyland
Part I: The Conjuring of America: 1517–1789
Chapter 2: I Believe, Therefore I Am Right: The Protestants
Chapter 3: All That Glitters: The Gold-Seekers
Chapter 4: Building Our Own Private Heaven on Earth: The Puritans
Chapter 5: The God-Given Freedom to Believe in God
Chapter 6: Imaginary Friends and Enemies: The Early Satanic Panics
Chapter 7: The First Me Century: Religion Gets American
Chapter 8: Meanwhile, in the Eighteenth-Century Reality-Based Community
Part II: United States of Amazing: The 1800s
Chapter 9: The First Great Delirium
Chapter 10: The All-American Fan Fiction of Joseph Smith, Prophet
Chapter 11: Quack Nation: Magical but Modern
Chapter 12: Fantastic Business: The Gold Rush Inflection Point
Chapter 13: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Conspiracy Theory Habit
Chapter 14: The War Between States of Mind
Chapter 15: Ten Million Little Houses on the Prairie
Chapter 16: Fantasy Industrialized
Part III: A Long Arc Bending Toward Reason: 1900–1960
Chapter 17: Progress and Backlash
Chapter 18: The Biggest Backlash: Brand-New Old-Time Religion
Chapter 19: The Business of America Is Show Business
Chapter 20: Big Rock Candy Mountains: Utopia in the Suburbs and the Sun
Chapter 21: The 1950s Seemed So Normal
Part IV: Big Bang: The 1960s and ’70s
Chapter 22: Big Bang: The Hippies
Chapter 23: Big Bang: The Intellectuals
Chapter 24: Big Bang: The Christians
Chapter 25: Big Bang: Politics and Government and Conspiracies
Chapter 26: Big Bang: Living in a Land of Entertainment
Part V: Fantasyland Scales: From the 1980s Through the Turn of the Century
Chapter 27: Making Make-Believe More Realistic and Real Life More Make-Believe
Chapter 28: Forever Young: Kids “R” Us Syndrome
Chapter 29: The Reagan Era and the Start of the Digital Age
Chapter 30: American Religion from the Turn of the Millennium
Chapter 31: Our Wilder Christianities: Belief and Practice
Chapter 32: America Versus the Godless Civilized World: Why Are We So Exceptional?
Chapter 33: Magical but Not Necessarily Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious
Chapter 34: Blue-Chip Witch Doctors: The Reenchantment of Medicine
Chapter 35: How the Mainstream Enabled Fantasyland: Squishies, Cynics, and Believers
Chapter 36: Anything Goes—Unless It Picks My Pocket or Breaks My Leg
Part VI: The Problem with Fantasyland: From the 1980s to the Present and Beyond
Chapter 37: The Inmates Running the Asylum Decide Monsters Are Everywhere
Chapter 38: Reality Is a Conspiracy: The X-Filing of America
Chapter 39: Mad as Hell, the New Voice of the People
Chapter 40: When the Gop Went Off the Rails
Chapter 41: Liberals Denying Science
Chapter 42: Gun Crazy
Chapter 43: Final Fantasy-Industrial Complex
Chapter 44: Our Inner Children? They’re Going to Disney World!
Chapter 45: The Economic Dreamtime
Chapter 46: As Fantasyland Goes, So Goes the Nation
Dedication
Acknowledgments
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