God-fearing and free : a spiritual history of America's Cold War /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Going beyond modernism from World War I to the Cold War
- Pt. 1. How a theologican served the opinion elite, and how an evangelist startled them. Christianity, reason, and the national character
- Origins of an ailing polemic
- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. Guilt of the thirties, penitence of the fifties
- McCarthyism through sentimental melodrama and film noir
- Pt. 3. Cold War cultural politics and the varieties of religious experience. The mass culture critique's implications for American religion
- Jeremiads on the American arcade and its consumption ethic
- Pt. 4. Versions of inwardness in Cold War psychology and the neo-Gothic. Controversies over therapeutic religion
- Locating the enigma of Shirley Jackson
- Pt. 5. The styles of prophecy. Voices of reform, radicalism, and conservative dissent
- James Baldwin and the wages of innocence
- Epilogue: Putting an end to ending our innocence.