Phillip E. Hammond is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-editor of The Future of New Religious Movements and editor of The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in the Scientific Study of Religion, among other titles.

"It brings together some of the important work on the Protestant Church in modern America. Hammond is a well-known scholar in this area, and his historical view is an especially strong feature of the book." — Ruth Wallace, George Washington University

• Introduction Preface: Religious Pluralism and Social Order PART ONE: THEMES FROM THE PAST 1. In Search of a Protestant Twentieth Century: American Religion and Power Since 1990 2. The Moral Majority and All That: The Curious Path of Conservative Protestantism 3. Cults and the Civil Religion: A Tale of Two Centuries (co-authored by Robert Gordon-McCutchan) PART TWO: EVANGELICALISM AND POLITICS 4. An Approach to the Political Meaning of Evangelicalism in Present-Day America 5. Political Evangelicalism: The Anglo-American Comparison PART THREE: RELIGION AND LAW 6. The Courts and Secular Humanism: How to Misinterpret Church-State Issues 7. The Shifting Meaning of a Wall of Separation: Some Notes on Church, State, and Conscience 8. Constitutional Faith, Legitimating Myth, and Civil Religion PART FOUR: THE TRAJECTORY OF RELIGION AND POLITICAL CULTURE 9. Religion and the Persistence of Identity 10. Up and Down with the National Faith 11. The Fate of Liberal Protestantism in America Notes References Index