TABLE OF CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
PREFACE:WORSHIPING DEMOCRACY:THE PANTÉON AND THE GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY xiii
INTRODUCTION Dynamics of Democratic Faith 1
PART I: DEMOCRATIC FAITH AND ITS DISCONTENTS CHAPTER 1: Faith in Man 15
CHAPTER 2: Democratic Transformation 50
CHAPTER 3: Democracy as Trial: Toward a Critique of Democratic Faith 84
PART II: VOICES OF THE DEMOCRATIC FAITHFUL CHAPTER 4: Protagoras Unbound: The Democratic Mythology of Protagoras's "Great Speech" 119
CHAPTER 5: Civil Religion and the Democratic Faith of Rousseau 140
CHAPTER 6: American Faith: The Translation of Religious Faith to Democratic Faith 166
PART III: FRIENDLY CRITICS OF DEMOCRATIC FAITH CHAPTER 7: "A Pattern Laid Up in Heaven": Plato's Democratic Ideal 191
CHAPTER 8: The Only Permanent State: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy 214
CHAPTER 9: Hope in America: The Chastened Faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch 239
CONCLUSION: A Model of Democratic Charity 270
NOTES 289
INDEX 361
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