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Introduction / Hans Krabbendam And Derek Rubin -- Finding America In Hasidism / Pearl Abraham -- Pt.i. Religion In America: Past, Present, And Future. Mainstream Or Many Streams?: Diversity And Its Limits / Walter H. Conser -- Those Irrepressible Puritans: Canon War Survivors / Emory Elliott -- God Bless The South: The Burdens Of Religion In The American South Today / David Goldfield -- The Center And The Fringe: America's Religious Futures / Philip Jenkins -- Pt.ii. The Clerical Presence In Nineteenth-century Literature. Religious Icons, National Iconography, And Female Bodies In Hawthorne And Stowe / Brigitte Bailey -- Of Heaven And Hearth: Religion In The Popular Novels Of Augusta Jane Evans And Susan Warner / Anne Sophie Riepma -- Henry Adams, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, And The Case Of The Vanishing Clergy / Lisa Macfarlane -- Pt.iii. Religion In Twentieth-century Literature. Images Of Religion In American Fiction Of The Twentieth Century / Irene Visser --^ Lincoln's Heirs: Race And Religion In Alfred Kazin, William Faulkner, And Ralph Ellison / Hans Bak -- Looking At God With Children's Eyes: Religion, Biculturalism, And Childhood Autobiography / Isabel Duran -- Religion, The Body And Consumer Culture In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye / Sarah Way Sherman -- Have You Heard The One About God?: Representations Of Religion In The Comic Work Of Woody Allen And Philip Roth / Paul Mcdonald -- Pt.iv. Gender And American Religion. Early Modern English Women And Religion In The New World / Debra Meyers -- The Religious Imagination Of American Women / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Living The Contradiction: Life Histories, Feminism, Theology / Jeanne Cortiel -- Pt.v. Religious Space And National Symbolism. Religion, Place, And Change In An Urban Neighborhood / Joseph Heathcott -- Violence And The American Religious Landscape / Edward Linenthal --^ Season's Greetings, Judeo-christians!: The Rhetoric And Politics Of Religious Courtesy In American Culture / Michael Bar