Pre-Enlightenment religion -- Puritans -- Mary Dyer must die -- The Puritan psyche -- The Puritan conscience -- The Puritan intellect -- Preludes to Enlightenment -- Precursors : Samuel Sewall, Roger Williams -- Spur to Enlightenment : the Great Awakening -- Enlightened religion -- Unitarians -- Against the awakening -- Quakers -- Deists -- Disestablishment -- Beyond tolerance -- Jefferson's statute -- Madison's remonstrance -- First Amendment -- Madisonian separation -- The romantic era -- Transcendentalism -- Schism in New England -- Emersonians -- Religion of the heart -- The second Great Awakening -- Schisms over slavery -- God of battles -- Religion in the gilded age -- Culture wars -- Doomsday or progress? -- Second-coming theology -- Second-coming politics -- The social gospel -- Reversals -- Evangelicals riding high -- Evangelicals brought low -- Religion in a radical time -- Religious nation -- Euphoria -- Great religious truce -- The rights revolution -- Evangelicals counter attack -- The Karl Rove era -- Faith-based government -- Ecumenical Karl -- Life after Rove.