America's Book

Introduction
Part I. Creating a Bible Civilization

1) The Bible after Independence and before Paine
2) The Paine Provocation
3) Custodial Protestants vs. Sectarian Protestants
4) Francis Asbury and the Methodists

Part II. A Protestant Bible Civilization

5) The Bible Civilization in American History
6) Naming, Writing, and Speaking in a Hebrew Republic
7) Publishing
8) Personal Religion
9) The African American Bible

Part III. Fractures

10) Slavery and the Bible before the Missouri Compromise
11) Slavery and the Bible, 1819-1833
12) Democracy
13) The Law and a Christian America
14) The Common School Exception

Part IV. The Eclipse of Sola Scriptura

15) 1844
16) Whose Bible? (Catholics)
17) Whose Bible? (Lutherans, Jews, Nay-sayers, Natives)
18) Whose Bible? (Women)
19) The War Before the War
20) Scriptural Arguments in Context
21) The Civil War

Part V. After the Bible Civilization

22) 1865-1875
23) The Centennial Divide: 1876 and After
24) Protestant Wounds of War
25) Protestant Realignments
26) Marginal No More (Jews and Catholics)

Part VI. Toward the Present

27) Still A Bible Nation
28) An Enduring Cultural Landmark
29) Civil Religion
30) Still Under a Bushel

Epilogue

Short Titles for Notes
Notes
Acknowledgments
General Index
Scripture Index
Index of Scriptural Persons and Events

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• História da religião
• Vida e prática cristã
• Estudos bíblicos e exegese
• Escravidão e abolição da escravatura