Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Author's note -- Migrations and meetings : 1400-1620 -- city on a hill and its detractors and alternatives : 1621-1659 -- New anxieties : 1660-1699 -- Awakenings : 1700-1740 -- Revolutionary religion : 1741-1780 -- Religion and the new nation : 1781-1819 -- Reason and revivalism : 1820-1840 -- Expansion and fractures : 1841-1860 -- War and reconstruction : 1861-1880 -- Immigrants, industry, and the social gospel : 1881-1899 -- Modernity and its critics : 1900-1920 -- Under the shadows of World Wars : 1921-1950 -- Equality and explorations : 1951-1979 -- Religion and politics redux : 1980-present -- Appendix A : Documents -- Appendix B : Biographies of major personalities -- Appendix C : Maps -- Appendix D : Graphs and tables -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.