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moderate-liberal,
131–132

    
natural law versus,
62

Prejudice,
xxii
,
xxviii
,
14
,
64

Premillennialists,
134

Presbyterians,
xxiv
,
xxxii
,
98
,
101

Presley, Elvis,
109

Price, Garrett: cartoon by,
3
(fig.)

Principles, shared,
169
,
175

Privatization,
106–107
,
108
,
157
,
158
,
160
,
175

Progress,
ix–x

    
faith in,
155

    
intellectual,
xix
,
xxi
,
154

    
religious,
102

    
social,
116
,
153
,
154

Progressive era,
45
,
48
,
49

Prosperity,
ix
,
xviii
,
xxxiii
,
xxxviii
,
2
,
61

Protestant establishment,
xxv
,
107
,
159

    
collapse of,
xxvi
,
120

    
conservative Christians and,
161

Protestantism,
xxiii
,
xxiv
,
30
,
101
,
127

    
American,
100
,
108
,
167

    
legacy of,
177

    
mainline,
52
,
99
,
107
,
123
,
124
,
125
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
157
,
160
,
175

    
as national religion,
111

    
public life and,
xxvii
,
99

    
Scottish,
144

Protestants,
xviii
,
xxvii
,
18
,
148
,
149
,
158–159
,
161
,
178

    
conservative,
150

    
revivalist,
129

    
science and,
165

    
voting blocs of,
99–100

Psychology,
76
,
77
,
86
,
114
,
135
,
155

Psychotherapy,
72
,
82
,
83

Public domain,
125
,
158
,
159
,
171
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
176
,
178

    
freedom in,
55–56

    
religious differences and,
xxvi

Public intellectuals,
xv
,
xviii
,
xxix
,
44
,
62
,
178

Public life,
133
,
171

    
Protestantism and,
xxvii
,
99

    
religion and,
xv
,
xxvii
,
112
,
170
,
173

Public schools, prayers in,
xxvi
,
109
,
133
,
136
,
157
,
167

Public sphere,
xxvii
,
157
,
158
,
162

Puritans,
146
,
149

Race,
125
,
159
,
172

Racism,
xxv
,
14
,
63

Radio Corporation of America,
xxxi
,
102

Rand, Ayn,
xviii

Rand Corporation,
xxxviii

Rationality,
xxii
,
24
,
36
,
38
,
71
,
72
,
148
,
168

    
Enlightenment,
123

    
science and,
115

Reagan, Ronald,
139
,
140
,
141
,
142

Realism,
113
,
114
,
115

Reason,
xxiv
,
95
,
165
,
168

Reformation,
18
,
30
,
144
,
148

Reformed Church,
163
,
164

Relativism,
xxviii
,
46
,
49
,
140
,
144
,
145

Religion,
xii
,
xiii
,
xxiv
,
13
,
97
,
98
,
100
,
102
,
111
,
122
,
124
,
173
,
176

    
American,
104
,
134

    
civil,
133
,
149
,
175

    
culture and,
162
,
163

    
disestablishment of,
109

    
diversity and,
151
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
162
,
171

    
establishment of,
99

    
freedom of,
46
,
150

    
importance of,
98
,
110–111

    
liberal,
133
,
159

    
popular culture and,
109–110

    
private sphere and,
158

    
privatization of,
106
,
175

    
public life and,
xv
,
xxvii
,
157
,
170
,
173

    
science and,
xiv
,
103–104

    
society and,
158

    
teaching about,
167

    
turning away from,
136

Religious revivals,
97
,
98
,
104–105
,
106
,
110–111
,
122
,
123
,
152

Religious right,
19
,
128
,
129
,
135
,
162

    
emergence of,
160–161

    
heritage of,
148–149

    
populist,
149–150

    
rise of,
xxvi
,
98

Religious viewpoints,
xxvi
,
98
,
150
,
162
,
172
,
178

    
traditional,
156

    
unconventional,
147

Reston, James “Scotty,”
xxxviii
,
xxxix

Revivalist evangelicals,
19
,
128
,
129
,
138
,
139
,
140

Revivalist Protestantism,
129
,
133
,
138

Richter, Mischa: cartoon by,
38
(fig.)

Riesman, David,
28
,
29
,
30
,
31
,
32
,
40
,
72
,
93
,
153

    
Whyte and,
33

Roberts, Oral,
107

Rockwell, Norman,
xxxii

Roe v. Wade
(1973),
136
,
141

Rogers, Carl,
40
,
77
,
92–93

    
client-centered therapy and,
82–83

    
on Dewey/science,
85

    
optimism of,
84
,
86

    
Skinner and,
81
,
82
,
83
,
85–86

Romanticism,
xxiv
,
18
,
57

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
xxxiii
,
54
,
57

Rosenberg, Bernard,
10
,
11
,
15
,
21

Rossiter, Clinton,
xxxvi
,
xxxviii

Russell, Bertrand,
74

Russell, Jane,
109

Sabbath laws,
100

St. Augustine,
66
,
165

St. Thomas Aquinas,
66

Salinger, J. D.,
29

Santayana, George,
48

Sarnoff, David,
xxxi
,
102

Sartre, Jean–Paul,
29
,
47
,
71

Schaeffer, Francis,
141–145
,
147–148

    
Christian consensus and,
144

    
formulations of,
140–141

Schaeffer, Frank,
141

Schlafly, Phyllis,
137

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
6
,
57
,
58
,
63
,
64

    
Lippmann and,
56
,
153

Schoenberg, Arnold,
23

School prayers,
109
,
133

    
banning,
xxvi
,
136
,
157
,
167

Science,
49
,
87
,
97
,
102
,
111
,
113
,
154
,
166
,
168

    
Christianity and,
101

    
democracy and,
50

    
freedom and,
23
,
70
,
77

    
mechanistic,
79

    
modern,
51
,
79
,
92
,
103

    
Protestants and,
165

    
rationality and,
115

    
reasoning and,
165

    
religion and,
xiv
,
103–104

    
romanticism and,
18

Science,
83
,
116

Scientific inquiry,
40
,
84
,
86
,
90
,
116
,
168

Scientific method,
xxii
,
49
,
69
,
79
,
116
,
118
,
153
,
155

Scientism,
33
,
34

Scopes trial,
103
,
118

Secular humanism,
111
,
141
,
142
,
144
,
145
,
148
,
161

Secular liberals,
52
,
171
,
172

Secularism,
xxiv
,
xxvi
,
104–105
,
120
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
150
,
156
,
159
,
160
,
167
,
172
,
173
,
175
,
176
,
178

Segregation,
64
,
66

Self, primacy of,
72
,
73

Self-actualization,
82
,
84
,
85

Self-confidence,
80
,
114

Self-denial,
30
,
93

Self-determination,
xxii
,
22
,
31
,
32
,
72
,
90
,
113
,
149
,
156

Self-fulfillment,
41
,
42
,
43
,
56
,
92
,
94
,
97
,
112
,
152

Self–indulgence,
xxxvii–xxxviii
,
131

Self–realization,
38
,
40
,
41
,
156

Sense of purpose,
xxxiv–xxxv
,
xxxvi

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
(Kinsey),
88

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
(Kinsey),
88

Sexual mores,
87–88
,
90
,
136
,
137

Sexual revolution,
89
,
135
,
136
,
137
,
139

Sheen, Fulton,
107

Shils, Edward,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16

$64000 Question, The,
4

Skelton, Red,
7

Skinner, B. F.,
77–78
,
92

    
civilization and,
80

    
culture and,
93

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