Preface
Introduction
Part I: Abandoning American Culture
1. The Religious Critic and the End of an Era
2. The Rise of the Professional Intellectual
3. William James, Public Intellectual
Part II: Recovering Religious Theory
4. Religious Narrative and the Avoidance of Nature
5. Religious Naturalism and the Avoidance of Ambiguity
6. The Religious Thinker and the Acceptance of History
Part III: Grounding Religious Theory
7. The Reality of Conventions
8. The Reality of the Sacred Convention
Part IV: Reclaiming American Culture
9. The Religious Critic in the Third Sector
10. The Religious Critic and a Myth of America
Notes
Bibliography
Index