Philosophical Foundations of the Religious Axis: Religion, Politics, and American Political Architec

Prologue

History and Ideas
Reason in History
History and Liberty
Religion and Politics 1. Introduction

Christian America
Green Sustainability
Into the Wilderness
Culture Wars
Religious Motivation
Political Theology
American Political Architecture
Religion Axis
Philosophical Foundations
Paradoxes 2. American Political Architecture: Establishmentarianism, Toleration, Containment

Establishmentarianism
In the Beginning
Intolerance vs. Toleration
Classical Political Architecture under Stress
Dissenter's Dissidence
Toward Disestablishment
Containing the Fires of Faith 3. Discerning the Religious Axis; The Religious Question and Axiality

Religious Question
Incompatible Presuppositions
Karl Jasper's Axial Age
Second Axial Age?
Any Axial Age?
Axiality and Breakthroughs
Religious Axis 4. Epistemic Foundation: Epistemologies and Worldviews, the Bible and Public Schools

Renaissance
Greco-Islamic Tradition
Demonstrative Inferences
Inductive Turn
Incorporating the Turn
Biblical Worldview
Demonstrative Redux
Back to the Bible
U.S Supreme Court
Back to the Classroom 5. Axiological Foundation: Emancipation of Values, National Prayers, and Same-Sex Marriage

American Philosophical Method
Disentangling Religious Values
New Science
New Political Science
Diversification and Agitation
Competition and Prayers
Morality, Politics, and Same-Sex Marriage
Political Religion 6. Political Foundation: Religious Proclamations, Free Exercise, Expansion, Establishmentarianism

Religious Proclamations
Containment Structure
Fires of Faith
De Facto Establishment
Religious Conflict
Christian Amendment
Expanding Religious Liberty
Evangelizing Political Leaders 7. Paradoxes

Structural Paradox
Democracy's Anitdemocracy
Madisonian Paradox(es)
Disestablishment, Reestablishment