Puritans and revolution: remembering the origin: religion and social critique in early New England / Wilson N. Brissett
The early republic: Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of history and the future of American Christianity / Johann N. Neem
The Romantic era: Emerson's churches of one / Matthew Mutter
The Civil War: redeemer president and warrior prophet: Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, and evangelical Protestantism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
After the Civil War: Auguste Comte's theory of history crosses the Atlantic / Andrew Witmer
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: mastery, modern doubt, and the costs of progress / Christopher McKnight Nichols
World War I and after: godlessness and the Scopes trial / Kevin M. Schultz
The thirties to the fifties: totalitarianism and the second American Enlightenment / David Ciepley
The sixties: secularization and the prophesies of freedom / Slavica Jakelić
The seventies and eighties: a reversal of fortunes / Joseph E. Davis and David Franz
From 11/9/1989 to 9/11/2001 and beyond: the return of Jeremiad and the specter of secularization / Joshua J. Yates
Conclusion: Prophesies, in retrospect and prospect / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes.
Prophesies of godlessness : predictions of America's imminent secularization, from the Puritans to the present day. ISBN 9780195342543. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.