The Protestant presence in twentieth-century America : religion and political culture / Phillip E. Hammond. [print]

Preface: religious pluralism and social order -- Part 1: themes from the past -- In search of a Protestant twentieth century: American religion and power since 1900 -- The moral majority and all that: the curious path of conservative Protestantism -- Cults and the civil religion: a tale of two centuries (co-authored by Robert Gordon-McCutchan) -- Part 2: Evangelicalism and politics -- An approach to the political meaning of Evangelicalism in present-day America -- Political Evangelicalism: the Anglo-American comparison -- Part 3: Religion and law -- The courts and secular humanism: how to misinterpret church-state issues -- The shifting meaning of a wall of separation: some notes on church, state, and conscience -- Constitutional faith, legitimating myth, and civil religion -- Part 4: The trajectory of religion and political culture -- Religion and the persistence of identity -- Up and down with the national faith -- The fate of liberal Protestantism in America.

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