Chapter 1 The Indigenous Dream—A World without an “America”

Chapter 2 Race, Religion, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Chapter 3 Pax Americana, Pax Humana

Chapter 4 The United States as a Responsible Member of the Global Community: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness When Globalized Militarization Matters

Chapter 5 Living Sustainably toward Social Justice: Asceticism Revisited

Chapter 6 “Dead in the Water….Again”: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 7 Welcome to the Great American Middle Class: From the American Dream to Deep Solidarity

Chapter 8 Political Theology: Reflecting on the Arts of a Liberating Politics

Chapter 9 Naming What We Want: Thoughts on Religious Vocabulary and the Desire for Quality of Life

Chapter 10 Redeeming Equality: Life, Liberty, and Alternatives to Obliviousness

Chapter 11 The Political Divide

Chapter 12 Revitalizing US Civil Society by Reconceptualizing Civil Religion and Its Virtues

Chapter 14 Afterword