Skepticism and American faith: from the Revolution to the Civil War

1. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution

2. Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits

3. Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism

4. Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility

5. Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania

6. Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West

7. Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri

8. Revelation and Reason: New Englanders in the Early Nineteenth Century

9. Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and Soul

10. Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston

11. Converting Skeptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies

12. Political Hermeneutics: Nullifying the Bible and Consolidating Proslavery Christianity

13. Lived Experience and the Sacred Cause: Faith, Skepticism, and Civil War