The Evangelical Empire

1. The Evangelical Denominations--A Major Nationalizing Force
2. The Evangelical Paradox--Piety in the Land of the "Individual"
   1. The Colonial Era
      1. Religious Weakness
         1. Unchurched Masses
         2. Rationalistic Elite
      2. Resurgence--The "First Great Awakening"
         1. The Problem--Individualism and Its Discontents
         2. The Solution--Evangelical Pietism
            1. Centrality of Personal Experience
            2. Stripped-Down Institutions
            3. Ordering the Frontier--Churches as Social Institutions
   2. Independence and After
      1. A New Crisis
         1. The Problem--"Infidelity"
            1. Exploding Western Settlement
            2. Disestablishment
         2. The Solution--A National Missionary Effort
            1. The First Denominations
            2. The "Benevolent Empire"
      2. The "Second Great Awakening"
         1. Revivalism--Salvation as Technique--Increased Scope for Human Effort
         2. Social Role of Churches--Ordering a Society of Strangers
         3. Secular Ramifications
            1. Egalitarianism--African-American Christianity
            2. Faith in Human Progress--Reform