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Preface Prologue: The Hidden World of Prophecy Belief I. The Genre and Its Early Interpreters 1. Origins of the Apocalyptic 2. Rhythms of Prophecy Belief 3. The Premillennial Strand II. Key Themes after World War II 4. The Atomic Bomb and Nuclear War 5. Ezekiel as the First Cold Warrior 6. The Final Chatisement of the Chosen 7. The United States in Prophecy 8. Antichrist, 666, and the Mark of the Beast III. The Enduring Apocalyptic Vision 9. The Continuing Appeal of Prophecy Belief 10. Apocalyptic Portents in a Post-Cold War World Notes Acknowledgements Credits Index Illustrations follow pages 144 and 280

Etude des liens entre religion et revolution dans l'histoire des Etats-Unis (fin du XVIII e siecle-debut du XIX e siecle)

Introduction by John F. Wilson Church-State Issues in the Period of the Civil War by William F. Deverell Church-States Issues in Reconstruction and the Culture of the Southern States by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. Social Justice in an Industrial Society by Mark S. Massa Immigration and Urbanization: Changing Patterns of Religious and Cultural Authority by Richard Hughes Seager Church and State at the Turn of the Century: Missions and Imperialism, Bureaucratization, and War, 1898-1920 by James D. Beumler Church-State Issues in the Twenties and Thirties by Richard D. Horn America Emerges as a World Power: Religion, Politics, and Nationhood, 1940-1960 by James D. Beumler Religion and the Nation: 1960 to the Present by David Harrington Watt Religion and Education: 1870 to the Present by John W. Lowe, Jr. Religion and Law in the United States: 1870 to the Present by Winnifred F. Sullivan Women and Religion in America, 1870-1920 by Elizabeth B. Clark Index Contributors

Editors' preface The statute of Virginia for religious freedom 1. The Virginia statute two hundred years later Martin E. Marty 2. Colonial religion and liberty of conscience Edwin S. Gaustad 3. Religious Freedom and the desacralization of politics J. G. A. Pocock 4. The political theory of Thomas Jefferson Thomas E. Buckley, S. J. 5. James Madison, the statute for religious freedom, and the crisis of republican convictions Lance Banning 6. 'The rage of malice of the old serpent devil': the dissenters and the making and remaking of the Virginia statute for religious freedom Rhys Isaac 7. 'Quota of imps' John T. Noonan, Jr 8. Jeffersonian religious liberty and American pluralism Cushing Strout 9. Religion and civil virtue in America: Jefferson's statute reconsidered David Little 10. The priority of democracy to philosophy Richard Rorty 11. Madison's 'detached memoranda': then and now Leo Pfeffer 12. The Supreme Court and the serpentine wall A. E. Dick Howard Index.