The soul of America; a constructive essay in the sociology of religion

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Chapter III. The Cultural Unity of America ... 25

1. " Pioneers, O Pioneers 1 " 2. A Falsehood that will be made True 3. America true to the Law of her own Being 4. Where the Poor do not look up to the Rich 5. Intuition versus Instinct and Intellect 6. Where the Educated, Leisured, and Revered Class consists of Women

Chapter IV. The Jews in America 50

1. Jewish Enthusiasm for America 2. Subsidiary Patriotisms

3. Two Voices in the Old Testament 4. Jews must declare their Attitude 5. Mr. Zangwill not Explicit Enough 6. An Injury wrought by One of the Voices in the Old Testament

Chapter V. Roman Catholics, Marxian Socialists, and Some Others 67

1. The Importation of Spiritual Wares 2. Individualistic Humanitarianism 3. " Five per Cent Bonds of Peace "

4. The Anti-nationalism of the Church of Rome 5. The Danger of Anti-patriotic Socialism

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Chapter VI. How to conserve America's Spiritual Resources 85

1. America not merely a Unit of Material Wealth 2. America the Living Church of All Americans 3. The Denominations as Parties in the Nation- Church 4. A National Committee Needed 5. The God of Personal Salvation

Chapter VII. Only One New Centre of Public Worship in Each State 106

1. As an Object Lesson and Laboratory 2. Institutes for Religious Research 3. Argument rendered Superfluous 4. Creeds the Last Documents to be Revised 5. The Liberty of Intellectual Interpretation 6. The Contents of Things Said and Sung

Chapter VIII. The Nation, the State, and the Churches 120

1. A Voluntary National Church 2. A State Church un-American 3. Religious Parties versus Sects 4. Sectarianism Anti-democratic

Chapter IX. The Sociological Function of the Churches 135

1. Religion not merely a Private Concern 2. Professor William James's Error 3. The Quickening Influence of the Churches 4. The Self-made Man in Religion 5. " Omne Vivum exVivo" 6. The Social Genesis of Conversion 7. Spiritual Environment deliberately Prepared 8. The Power that Saves

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CHRISTIANITY TO BE REINTERPRETED IN THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE AND AMERICAN IDEALISM

Chapter X. Christianity minus Miracle .... 157

1. No Guidance from the Dead 2. Help from the Historical Christ 3. The Communion of Saints 4. Against Demonism 5. Against Monistic Spiritism 6. A Presupposition of All Moral Judgments 7. No Mediumship 8. Naturalism 9. Man a Spirit

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Chapter XL The Humanistic Meaning of Theological

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1. The Rethinking of the Old Realities 2. Theological Terms Indispensable 3. Religion and Theology 4. The Word "Theology" 5. The Word "Theism" 6. The Word "Atheist" 7. The Word "Religion" 8. The Word " God "

Chapter XII. Humanistic Meanings {continued) . . . . 195 1. The God of the Bible 2. The Personality of God 3. "Worship," "Prayer," "Church" 4. "Repentance," "Saint," "Holiness" 5. The Word "Christ" 6. Matthew Arnold's Insight into Christian Meanings 7. The Words " Sin " and "Devil" 8. The Word "Hell" 9. " Redemption," " Salvation," " Eternal," " Infinite "

Chapter XIII. Prayer to the God in Man . . • .219 1. The Efficacy of Petition 2. Human Beings who answer Prayers to God 3. Outward Expressions of Prayer 4. Prayer to the Absent 5. Prayers that are Overheard

6. Prayers to Historic Personages 7. Prayers to Jesus 8. Prayers to Spiritual Tendencies and Ideas 9. Prayer not merely Communion 10. Prayer not merely Mental 11. Public Prayer 12. The Emotional Elevation of Prayer 13. Statements of Fact in Prayer 14. A Mystic Union with God 15. The Value of Ethical Declarations

Chapter XIV. Christianity plus Science 247

1. New Grounds for Millennial Hope 2. The History of the Millennial Hope 3. The False Basis of the Old Hope 4. A Heaven Material as well as Spiritual 5. The Sanity and Purity of the New Hope 6. Children born Unbiassed

7. Science, Wealth, and Religion 8. How Long ? 9. The Religion of Eugenics

Chapter XV. Social Democracy and Religion . . .267 1. Church Services to express the Democratic Faith 2. Sir Henry Maine's Error about Democracy 3. The Dynamics of Democracy 4. The Inside of the Democratic Cup

5. The Religious Individualism of Professed Socialists

6. Isolation Fatal to Churches 7. Not Toleration but Cooperation in Religion 8. Debate to be an Item in Public Worship 9. The Social Psychology of Religion 10. A Religion teaching Self-respect

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CHRISTIANITY TO BE EXPRESSED IN SCIEN- TIFIC LANGUAGE AND DEMOCRATIC SYMBOL

Chapter XVI. The Need of a New Manual of National

Worship 291

1. For the Storage and Transmission of National Idealism 2. Services as compared with Sermons 3. Christian Science an Instance 4. Preaching alone Inadequate 5. Ethics and Ceremonial 6. The Revision of Church Services 7. Science unifies Men 8. Outside the Churches 9. The Warring Sects 10. The East

Chapter XVII. The Growth of Liturgies , 316

1. By Effort 2. Emerson on Adaptation 3. The Right to adapt Creeds and Hymns 4. An Anglican's Plea for Revision 5. Lord Morley's Plea 6. Ancient Forms were New once 7. The Poets Called 8. The Humanists in Religion

Chapter XVIII. Prejudices against Religious Forms . . 336

1. Familiar Acquaintance Needed 2. The Effect on the Believer 3. The Value of the Thing Symbolized 4. Minor Cautions

Chapter XIX. The Psychology of Public Worship . . 344

1. Historical 2. Analytical 3. The Symbolism of Dress 4. Not Supernaturalistic 5. The Ethical Meaning of Ritual 6. The Difference between Ritual and Acting 7. Ritual and Real Life 8. Social Democratic Ritual 9. Ritual and the Fine Arts

Chapter XX. Democratic Forms of Public Worship . . 372

1. Symbolism 2. Through the Senses 3. Ethical Ceremony 4. Good Deeds and Public Worship 5. A Spiritual Atmosphere

The author acknowledges his indebtedness to Messrs. Williams and Norgate, of London, for permission to incorporate in Parts II and III of this volume the substance of several chapters of his book entitled " National Idealism and a State Church," published by them in 1907.

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