- Prologue
- Introduction: Going beyond Modernism from World War I to the Cold War
- I. How a Theologian Served the Opinion Elite, and How an Evangelist Startled Them
- 1. Christianity, Reason, and the National Character
- 2. Origins of an Ailing Polemic
- II. Narratives of Blindness and Insight in an Era of Confession
- 3. Guilt of the Thirties, Penitence of the Fifties
- 4. McCarthyism through Sentimental Melodrama and Film Noir
- III. Cold War Cultural Politics and the Varieties of Religious Experience
- 5. The Mass Culture Critique’s Implications for American Religion
- 6. Jeremiads on the American Arcade and Its Consumption Ethic
- IV. Versions of Inwardness in Cold War Psychology and the Neo-Gothic
- 7. Controversies over Therapeutic Religion
- 8. Locating the Enigma of Shirley Jackson
- V. The Styles of Prophecy
- 9. Voices of Reform, Radicalism, and Conservative Dissent
- 10. James Baldwin and the Wages of Innocence
- Epilogue: Putting an End to Ending Our Innocence
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


God-Fearing and Free
A Spiritual History of America's Cold War
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ISBN 9780674055551
Publication Date: 11/15/2010
Awards & Accolades
- 2011 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association