Theologies of American Exceptionalism

Winnifred Sullivan is Provost Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Center of Religion and the Human at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Prison Religion, A Ministry of Presence and Church State Corporation.Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor of Political Science and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations and Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on the Print EditionPrefaceLove1. Familiar Commerce and Covenantal Love, by Constance Furey2. A Yet Unapproachable America, by Matthew Scherer3. The Promise of Immanent Critique, by Joseph WintersFiction4. "A History of America": Comments on Johnson v M'Intosh, by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan5. The Great American Novel, by M. Cooper Harriss6. Memories of the Future, by W. Clark GilpinRevolution7. Revolution as Revelation, by Spencer Dew8. Exceptional Americanism, by Noah Salomon9. Unexceptionable Islam, by Faisal DevjiCommerce10. The America-Game, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd11. American Techno-Optimism, by Lisa H. Sideris12. Sovereign Exceptionality, by Elisabeth AnkerChosen13. The Judeo-Christian Tradition, by Shaul Magid14. Sacrifice, by Stephanie Frank15. Two Theologies of Chosenness, by Benjamin L. BergerAppendixContributors